 | Virgil - 1763 - 374 ページ
...his Gardens on the Efqui" line Hill at Rome . Bat ah ! Mcecenas is yclad in Clay, And great Auguftus long ago is dead, And all the Worthies liggen wrapt...encouraged, race had of touching on the Faults of his beft Friends, even whilft he is commending them ; and the Friend here touched upon they will have to... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 478 ページ
...gardens on the Efquiline hill at Rome. But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Auguftus long ygo is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead,...encouragement as Virgil met with ; and who adds, in a noble ftrain, that, if he had been encouraged, Thou kenft not, Percie, how the rime fhould rage ! O if my... | |
 | 1788 - 510 ページ
...quake his verse to hear. 60 . t. i . But ah ! Mccaenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ygo is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to play : For aver who in derring-do were dread, 6 5 The lofty verse of hem was loved aye. But after- Vertue... | |
 | William Hales - 1799 - 398 ページ
...Pallere, et vinum toto nefcire Dcftmbri! JuvENAl " But ah ! Mecenas is yclad in clay, And great Auguftta long ago is dead, And all the Worthies liggen wrapt in lead — The matter made for Poets on to play!" SPEKSIR. Que ma vue a Colbert infpiroit FAllegreffe! " With... | |
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 ページ
...Spenser has an allusion to these lines : / " But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in clay, " And great Augustus long ago is dead,. " And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, " That matter made for poets on to play !" So fare the tuneful race. The HISTORIANS' pains Are, doubtless, recompens'd by ampler gains. More... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 442 ページ
...• •' i, . • •» .-. . But ah ! Mecaenas is yclad in claye, fii And great Auguftus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to playe : For ever, who in derring-doe were dread, <55 The loftie verfe of hem was loved aye. But after... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 582 ページ
...in the Shepherd's Calendar : ' But ah ! Mecaenas is yclad in claye, ' And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, ' And all the Worthies liggen wrapt in lead, ' That matter made for poets on to playe : ' For ever, who in derring-doe were dread, " The loftie verse of hem was loved aye." JEgl.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 ページ
...Heavens did quake his verse to beare. But ah ! Mecsenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made fur poets on to playe : For fiver, «ho in derring-doe were dread, The loftie verse of hem was loved... | |
 | Perse, Juvénal - 1817 - 596 ページ
...in the Shepherd's Calendar : " But ah ! Mqcaenas is yclad in claye, " And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, " And all the Worthies liggen wrapt in lead, " That matter made for poets on to playe : " For ever, who in derriug-doe were dread, * The luftie verse of hem was loved aye." JEgl.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 408 ページ
...did quake his verse to heare. 60 But ah ! Meceenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to playe : For ever, who in derring-doe were dread, 65 The loftie verse of hem was loved aye. But after... | |
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But ah! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead... 
