 The striving artists, and their art's renown— He saw, in order painted on the wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall : The wars that fame around the world had blown, All to the life, and every leader known. There Agamemnon, Priam here, he spies, And...  The Works of Virgil - Page 137by Virgil - 1880 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...did unhappy Troy befall — The wars that fame around the world had blown, All to the life, and every leader known. There Agamemnon, Priam here, he spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said, — "O, friend ! even here The monuments of Trojan woes appear ! Our known... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said—' O friend! e'en The monuments of Trojan woes appear! [here Our known disasters fill e'en foreign lands; See there,...walls relate the warrior's fame, And Trojan griefs the Tyrians' pity claim.' He said—(his tears a ready passage find) Devouring what he saw so well design'd;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...did unhappy Troy befall— The wars that fame around the world had blown, AH to the life, and every leader known. There Agamemnon, Priam here, he spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said—' O friend! e'en The monuments of Trojan woes appear! [here Our known disasters... | |
 | Virgil - 1830 - 348 pages
...on the wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall— The wars that fame around the world had blown, 640 All to the life, and ev'ry leader known. There Agamemnon,...spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said, ' O friend ! ev'n here The monuments of Trojan woes appear! • 645 Our... | |
 | Virgil - 1834 - 314 pages
...on the wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall — The wars that fame around the world had blown, 640 All to the life, and ev'ry leader known. There Agamemnon,...spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said, "°O friend ! ev'n here The monuments of Trojan woes appear ! 645 Our known... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - 404 pages
...Achillem. — ^En. i. 456. The wars that fame around the world had blown, All to the life, and every leader known. There Agamemnon, Priam here he spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. — DRVDEN. This practice of decorating the pediments of their temples with the richest sculpture,... | |
 | George William David Evans - 1835 - 400 pages
...Achillem.— /Kv i. 456. The wars that fame around the world had blown, All to the life, and every leader known. There Agamemnon, Priam here he spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies.—DRYDEN. This practice of decorating the pediments of their temples with the richest sculpture,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...fortune of the rising town, The striving artists, and their arts' renownHe saw, in order painted on the wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall — The wars...spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said, " O friend ! e'en here The monuments of Trojan woes appear ! Our known disasters... | |
 | John Eagles - 1856 - 416 pages
...inquit, Achate, Quse regio in terris nostri non plena laboris 1" " He stopped, and weeping said, Oh friend, e'en here The monuments of Trojan woes appear, Our known disasters fill e'en foreign lands." DRTDEN. This repose of attitude is further continued — " Sic ait : atque animum picturd pascit inani."... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...known. Thore Agamenmon, Priam here, he spies, And fieree Achilles, who hoth kings defies. He stopp'd, and weeping said, " O friend ! e'en here The monuments...walls relate the warrior's fame, And Trojan griefs the Tyrians' pity claim." He said — (his tears a ready passage find) Devouring what he saw so well deeign'd,... | |
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