 | John Austin Stevens - 1876 - 336 páginas
...many brave men who died before Agamemnon, the modest founders of New York for a long time slept, " Unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own."§ This is doubtless owing, in some degree, to ignorance * William Smith, who died in 1793, Chief-Justice... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1880 - 320 páginas
...prodigal of life, To guard a darling son, and faithful wife. Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Beign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. 1 In earth, if it forgotten lies, What is the valour of the brave ? What difference, when the coward... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 510 páginas
...Urgentnr, ignotique longa Noote, carent quia vate saoro." " Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Keign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's...endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard they had to make all time their own." they are more beholden to scholars, than scholars to them ; but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 páginas
...casual mention and uncertain tradition have supplied.' Johnson's Worts, vii. 245. See ante, iii. 71. 3 ' Before great Agamemnon reign'd Reign'd kings as great...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own.' FRANCIS. Horace, Odes, iv. 9. 25. notwithstanding my best care, a few observations had escaped me,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 414 páginas
...Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illachrymabilss Urgenlur, ignotique longd Nocte, carent quia vate saero." '• Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great...unknown: No bard had they to make all time their own." FRANCIS. Tully enquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 páginas
...(2nd edn, Oxford, 1974), p. 265. As Philip Francis, Johnson's favourite translator of Horace, put it: Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd Kings as great...unknown, No Bard had They to make all Time their own. 50 By comparison with Johnson's apologia, that of his protege was a vain boast. 5o Philip Francis,... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - 1999 - 558 páginas
...omnes illachrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique, longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. Hor. Lib. 4. Ca. 9. In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. Francis. But let us pursue Mr. J. in his remarks. “They are more ardent after their females.” If... | |
 | Mark W. Edwards - 2004 - 210 páginas
...bled They had no Poet and are dead! Philip Francis' version (1746), a rather good one, omits it too: Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd Kings as great as He, and brave, Whose huge Ambition's now contained In the small Compass of a Grave; In endless Night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No Bard had... | |
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Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave : In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own. 
