 | Horace - 1750 - 322 pages
...Whofe huge Ambition's now cont.iin'd In the fmall Conipafs of a Grave ; Itv entilefs Night they fteep, unwept, unknown, No Bard had They to make all Time...their own. In E.arth if it forgotten lies, What is the Vilour of the Brave ? \Yhat Difference, when the Coward dies, And finks in Silence to his Grave ? "Nor,... | |
 | Boethius - 1785 - 270 pages
...ambition's now contain'd In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they fleep, unwept, unknown j No Bard had they to make all time their own, In earth...brave ? What difference, when the coward dies, And finks in filence to his grave ? FftANCil. the beft compofitions, along with the names of their authors,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...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. Horace, Odes, iv. 9, 25. transmitted 474 Passages stippressed. transmitted to posterity, by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...Whofe huge ambition's now contain'd In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they fleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANC1s. Tully enquires, in the fame oration, why, but for fame, we difturb a fhort life with fo many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...Whofe huge ambition's now contain'di In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they fleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIS. Tully enquires, in the fame oration, why, but for fame, we difturb a fhort life with fo many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...Whofe huge ambition's now contain'd In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they flcep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIs. Tully enquires, in the fame oration, why, but for fame, we difturb a fhort life with fo many... | |
 | 1801 - 344 pages
...\Vhofe huge ambition's now contuin'd In the imall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they deep, unwept, unknown: No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIS. Tally enquires, in the fame oration, why, but for fame, we difturb a fhort life with fo many... | |
 | 1803 - 296 pages
...great Agamemnon reign'd, Keign'u Kmgs 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. FRANCII. Tully enquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
 | Horace - 1806 - 492 pages
...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...their own. In earth if it forgotten lies, What is the valor of the brave ? What difference, when the coward dies. And sinks in silence to his grave ? Nor,... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...great Agamemnon reign'd t Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whofe huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave : In endless night....• 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... | |
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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. 
