 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.  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Page 164by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1759 - 512 pages
...Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, fed omnes illactymabiks Urgentur, ignotique longaA .Wot/e ¿. Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd Kings as great as he, and brave; Whofe huge Ambition's now contain'd In the fmall Compafs of a Grave:: In endlefs Night they fleep,... | |
 | Anicius Manlius T.S. Boethius, Boethius - 1785 - 280 pages
...Urgentur, ignotique longa Nofte carent quia vate (aero. Paitlum fepultae diftat inertias Celata vinus. Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whofe huge ambition's now contained In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they deep, unwept,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...mention and uncertain tradition have supplied ' Johnson's Works, vii. 245. See ante, iii. 81, 82. • ' Before great Agamemnon reign'd Reign'd kings as great...unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own.' FRANCIS. Horace, Odes, iv. 9, 25. transmitted transmitted to posterity, by being appended to an illustrious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...Agamemnona Afulti ; fed omnti illachrymabilet Urgentur, ignotique longa Notie^ carent quia vatefacro* Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whofe huge ambition's now contain'd In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they fleep,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...Agamemnona Multi ; Jed omnes illacbrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longâ Noäe, careni quia liate facra. Before great Agamemnon reign'd» Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whofe huge ambition's now contain'd In the fmall compafs of a grave : In endlefs night they fleep,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 312 pages
...kings as great as he, and brave. Whose huge ambition '3 now cuntain'd In the small compass of a gray:: In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown: No bard had they to make all time their own. FRANCIS. Titlly inquires, in the same oration, why, but for fame, we disturb a short life with so many... | |
 | 1803 - 296 pages
...iltachrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave : Reign'ii Kings as great as he, and brave, No bard had they to make all time their own. In endless... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pages
...great Agamemnon reign'd, Whose huge ambition's now contain'J Reign'd Icings, as great as he, and brave, In the small compass of a grave ; In endless night...unknown, No bard had they, to make all time their own. FBAKCXS. THE encouragement of learning ' the patronage of genius are ibjeets, of which, though we hear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...iliachrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique long& -Node, carent quia vate sacra* Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave: Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown ; No bard had... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...Agamemnnna Mitlti,fed omttes illacbrymabiles Vrgentur, ignotique longa Noctt) careat quia -vatcfacrO' Before great Agamemnon reign'd, 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 thej sleep,... | |
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