 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.  Horace - Strana 170podľa Horace - 1806 - Počet stránok 454Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Horace - 1834 - Počet stránok 920
...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...their own. In earth if it forgotten lies, What is the valour of the brave? What difference when the coward dies , And sinks in silence to hie grave , Nor,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - Počet stránok 630
...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...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. FRiNCIS. Tully inquires, in the same oration, why, bu for fame, we disturb a short life with so man;... | |
 | Edward Giffard - 1837 - Počet stránok 444
...Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd Kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In a small compass of a grave ; In endless night they sleep,...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. Francis. But for the magic of the Grecian muse, the victors and the vanquished would have been lost... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - Počet stránok 630
...great Agamemnon rcign'd, Reign'd kings us great an hn, 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 moke all time their own. FRANCIS. •> Tully inquires, in the same oration, why, bu for fame, we disturb... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - Počet stránok 624
...brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain M In the small compass of agrave ; In endless night thi-y sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIS. Tully inquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - Počet stránok 480
...* " Before great Agamemnon reigned, Reigned kings as great as he and brave, Whose hnge ambition 's now contained In the small compass of a grave ; In...— No bard had they to make all time their own." can thus trace back in unbroken connection for one hundred and twenty-four years, from 1750 to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - Počet stránok 624
...Reign'd kings as great as he, aod brave, IVhoce huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass uf a grave ; In endless night the.y sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. rCAHOIf. Tully inquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - Počet stránok 568
...great Agamemnon reign'd. Reign 'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contam'd In the small compass of a grave : In endless night...their own.* In earth if it forgotten lies, What is the valour of the brave * What difference, when the coward dies, And sinks in silence to his grave ? Nor,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - Počet stránok 366
...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 thev to make all time their own." FRANcIS, p. 223L (2) [Mr. Coleridge, speaking of the original " Atheista... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - Počet stránok 1798
...great Agamemnon relgn'd, Rcign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd I omit a little instance of that jealous independence...impetuosity of temper, which never forsook him. The fact Hor. Od. Iv. 9. Fraacil. — CHOKER. * Having found, on a revision of the first edition of this work,... | |
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