John Conington war ein britischer Klassischer Philologe.
“Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 55
Book I, ode xi
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
“The gods implore
To crush the proud and elevate the poor.”
Quelle: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 180
“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”
Book III, ode i
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
“If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 27
“Virgil imitated Homer, but imitated him as a rival, not as a disciple.”
Introduction, p. 27
Commentary, P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume II (1863)
“No longer dream that human prayer
The will of Fate can overbear.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 202
“None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.”
Quelle: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 191
Book II, ode xiv
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
“Arise from my bones, my unknown avenger.”
Aeneid, Book IV, p. 216
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
“While memory lasts and pulses beat,
The thought of Dido shall be sweet.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 124
“Is there, friend,' he cries, 'a spot
That knows not Troy's unhappy lot?”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 23
“Fury and wrath within me rave,
And tempt me to a warrior's grave.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 52
“O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?”
Book II, satire viii, p. 94
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires
“Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XI, p. 427
“Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215
“I heard, fear-stricken and amazed,
My speech tongue-tied, my hair upraised.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
“Snatch him, ye Gods, from mortal eyes!”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 101
“Who hopes by strange variety to please,
Puts dolphins among forests, boars in seas.”
Quelle: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 172
“We have been Trojans: Troy has been:
She sat, but sits no more, a queen.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53
“E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 23
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 123
Preface to The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), p. ix
“There are few writers whose text is in so satisfactory a state as Virgil's.”
Preface, p. xi
Commentary, P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume I (1858)
“No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods.”
Book IV, ode viii
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
“Hush your tongues from idle speech.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 146
“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 48
“War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood
I see incarnadined with blood.”
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 189
