 | Horace - 1750 - 322 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pagina’s
...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,...bard had they to make all time their own.' FRANCIS. Horace, Odes, iv. 9, 25. transmitted 474 Passages stippressed. transmitted to posterity, by being appended... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pagina’s
...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 fatigues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pagina’s
...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 - 1792 - 444 pagina’s
...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 fatigues... | |
 | 1801 - 344 pagina’s
...\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 fatigues... | |
 | 1803 - 296 pagina’s
...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 they sleep,...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pagina’s
...Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings, as great as lie, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave ; In endless night they sleep,...unknown, No bard had they, to make all time their own. Hox. FRANCIS. THE encouragement of learning •and the patronage of genius are ^ubjeets, of which,... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pagina’s
...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 they sleep,...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 fatigues... | |
 | Horace - 1806 - 492 pagina’s
...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 they sleep,...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. In earth if it forgotten lies, What is the valor of the brave ? What difference, when the coward dies.... | |
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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. 
