Charles Symmons Quotes

Charles Symmons was a Welsh poet and priest.

✵ 1749 – 27. April 1826
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Famous Charles Symmons Quotes

“Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!”

Book III, lines 74–75
The Æneis (1817)

“Yet have I lived!—and lived for noble ends!
My shade in glory to the shades descends.”

Book IV, lines 878–879
The Æneis (1817)

Charles Symmons Quotes

“They can because they dare.”

Book V, line 300
The Æneis (1817)

“Hard is the task, O Queen! that you impose,
To tear my bosom with reviving woes.”

Book II, lines 3–4
The Æneis (1817)

“And shall I die? and unrevenged?”

she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)

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