 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - Počet stránok 424
...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." FRANCIS. Tully enquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
 | James Boswell - 1898 - Počet stránok 442
...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...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own." — Francis. 409 note. A contemptible scribbler. Probably John Wolcot (1738-1819), better known as... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - Počet stránok 556
...Before great Agamemnon reigned Reign'd kings as great as he and brave Whose huge ambitions now contain'd In the small compass of a grave; In endless night they sleep unwept, unknown, No bard they had to make all time their own.' " Poverty is the Muses' patrimony, and as that poetical divinity... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - Počet stránok 408
...great Agamennon reigned, Reigned 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 they had to make all time their own.— HORACE, Odea, IV, ix, 25. 4 De Contemptu Rerum Fortuitarum.... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - Počet stránok 292
...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...unwept, 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. 50 Philip Francis,... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - 1999 - Počet stránok 558
...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 they... | |
 | Mark W. Edwards - 2004 - Počet stránok 210
...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...unwept, unknown, No Bard had They to make all Time their own.3 In modern commentaries on Horace (and probably in most classrooms), the first line of the stanza... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 634
...Agamemnon reigned, Reiened kinjfs as great as he, anil brave, AY huse hu^e ambition 's now Contaiucd hi the small compass of a grave; In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown ; No hard had they to make all time their own ! ments, however, apply to much quicker marches of oblivion... | |
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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. 
