| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...attended by friends, of taste enough to relish, and abilities enough to register their conversation ; 'Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles...Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacroV They whose inferiour exertions are recorded, as serving to explain or illustrate the sayings... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead. 16 Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrymabiles...Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AND OTHER PIECES OF MUSIC. [Written in the year 1708.] DESCEND, ye Nine !... | |
| English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled ! They had no poet, and are dead. 16 Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vale sacro. AND OTHER PIECES OF MUSIC. [Written in the year 1708.] I. DESCEND, ye Nine! descend •nd... | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1802 - 408 pages
...non ferox Hector , vel acer Deiphobus graves Excepit ictus pro pudicis Conjugibus puerisque primus. Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi : sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur , ignotique , longa Nocte , curent quia vate sacro. Paulùm sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus. Non ego te meis Chartis inornatum... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...the fourth and following stanza, misled by his love of antithesis, he has formed a trifling epigram : Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrymabiles...Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro: Vain was the Chiefs, the Sage's pride ! They had no Poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1807 - 496 pages
...enough to relish, and abilities enough to register their conversation ; Vixere fortes ante Agamemuona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. They whose inferiour exertions are recorded, as serving to explain or illustrate the sayings of such... | |
| Classical philology - 1816 - 466 pages
...omuino extincta fuissent, vel confuso qnodam murmure ad aures nostras pei venisseiit. Vixere forles, ante Agamemnona, Multi; sed omnes illacrymabiles ,...Urgentur, ignotique, longa Nocte, carent quia vate cacro. Hor. Carm. 1. iv. «. 25. Vides igitur Vir nobilissime ! quanta,/ quam praclara, quam magnifica... | |
| Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - Nobility - 1819 - 268 pages
...that of a poet to record her charms. For it may be said of beauty, yet more certainly than of valour : Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia Vote sacro. The following letters to her son-in-law, Lord Halifax, had been carefully preserved and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...Anacreon, Delevit aetas : spirat adhuc amor, Vivuntque commissi calores ^Eoliae fidibus puellaa. * # * Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrymabiles...Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. NOTES. Ver. 8. Original — Stesichorique graves] The loss of the works of no two writers is perhaps... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...olim lusit Anacreon, Delevit aetas : spirat adhuc amor, Vivuntque commissi calores fidibus puellae. Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrymabiles...Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. NOTES. Ver. 8. Original — Stesichorique graves] The loss of the works of no two writers is perhaps... | |
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