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John Conington war ein britischer Klassischer Philologe.

✵ 10. August 1825 – 23. Oktober 1869
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“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12

“Now for a heart that scorns dismay:
Now for a soul prepared.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 197

“Now dews precipitate the night,
And setting stars to rest invite.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39

“Fear proves a base-born soul.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 109

“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 175

“A woman's will
Is changeful and uncertain still.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 134

“Huge, awful, hideous, ghastly, blind.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 103

“Tis thus that men to heaven aspire:
Go on and raise your glories higher.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 333

“They can because they think they can.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 153

“What's kept at home you cancel by a stroke:
What's sent abroad you never can revoke.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 188

“My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 138

“A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.”

John Conington

Georgics, Book I, p. 39
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)

“She calls it marriage now; such name
She chooses to conceal her shame.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 117

“Why reel I thus, confused and blind?
What madness mars my sober mind?”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XII, p. 436

“This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.”

John Conington

Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215

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