Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.
John Conington Quotes
1825–1869 England
John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.
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Also known as: Conington, Conington, John
79 quotes
Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
No day shall make your memory fail
From off the heart of time.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Then come the clamour and the blare,
And shouts and clarions rend the air.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
'Tis thus that men to heaven aspire:
Go on and raise your glories higher.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Myself not ignorant of woe,
Compassion I have learned to show.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
While memory lasts and pulses beat,
The thought of Dido shall be sweet.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
They can because they think they can.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Now for a heart that scorns dismay:
Now for a soul prepared.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.
The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Conington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.