What's kept at home you cancel by a stroke:
What's sent abroad you never can revoke.
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
No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
A lethargy of sleep,
Most like to death, so calm, so deep.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
For easier 'tis to learn and recollect
What moves derision than what claims respect.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
Who hopes by strange variety to please,
Puts dolphins among forests, boars in seas.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
She calls it marriage now; such name
She chooses to conceal her shame.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Virgil imitated Homer, but imitated him as a rival, not as a disciple.
Volume II (1863)
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Virtue's a mere name,
Or 'tis high venture that achieves high aim.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
Now dews precipitate the night,
And setting stars to rest invite.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood
I see incarnadined with blood.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
The gods implore
To crush the proud and elevate the poor.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)
A woman's will
Is changeful and uncertain still.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Arise from my bones, my unknown avenger.
The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Conington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.