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“Ye subterranean gods! whose awful sway
The gliding ghosts and silent shades obey:
O Chaos, hear! and Phlegethon profound!
Whose solemn empire stretches wide around!
Give me, ye great tremendous powers! to tell
Of scenes and wonders in the depths of Hell;
Give me your mighty secrets to display
From those black realms of darkness to the day.”

Christopher Pitt

Book VI, line 371
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

“To all, proportioned terms he must dispense,
And make the sound a picture of the sense.”

Christopher Pitt

Book III, p. 103
Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

“The shrill echoes ring amidst the skies.”

Christopher Pitt

Book IV, line 960
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

“Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,
To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard,
Among whose labours I may find a line
Which from unsightly rust I may refine,
And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.”

Christopher Pitt

Book III, p. 93
Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

“Now on a towering arch of waves we rise,
Heaved on the bounding billows, to the skies.
Then, as the roaring surge retreating fell,
We shoot down headlong to the depths of hell.”

Christopher Pitt

Book III, line 761
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

“Poor pitied youth! …
Bring fragrant flowers, the whitest lillies bring,
With all the purple beauties of the spring;
These gifts at least, these honours I'll bestow
On the dear youth, to please his shade below.”

Christopher Pitt

Book VI, line 1259
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Christopher Pitt Quotes about hell

“Infernal gods, who rule the shades below,
Chaos and Phlegethon, the realms of woe;
Grant what I've heard I may to light expose,
Secrets which earth, and night, and hell inclose!”

Christopher Pitt

Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale, The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse (1709), Aeneid, Book VI, lines 328–331, p. 210
Misattributed

“Smooth lies the road to Pluto's gloomy shade,
And hell's black gates for ever stand displayed,
But 'tis a long unconquerable pain,
To climb to these ethereal realms again.”

Christopher Pitt

Book VI, line 182
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

“But oh! may Earth her dreadful gulf display,
And gaping snatch me from the golden day;
May I be hurled, by Heaven's almighty fire,
Transfixed with thunder, and involved in fire,
Down to the shades of Hell, from realms of light,
The deep, deep shades of everlasting night.”

Christopher Pitt

Book III, line 35
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Christopher Pitt Quotes

“If some grave sire appears, amid the strife,
In morals strict, and innocence of life,
All stand attentive, while the sage controuls
Their wrath, and calms the tempest of their souls.”

Christopher Pitt

Book I, line 206
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Life , Soul , Appearance

“So from a brazen vase the trembling stream
Reflects the lunar or the solar beam:
Swift and elusive of the dazzled eyes,
From wall to wall the dancing glory flies:
Thence to the ceiling shoot the glancing rays,
And o'er the roof the quivering splendor plays.”

Christopher Pitt

Book VIII, line 33
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Dance

“I proved unfaithful to my former spouse,
And now I reap the fruits of broken vows!”

Christopher Pitt

Book IV, line 797
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Unfaithfulness

“But hear, ye gods! and Heaven's great ruler, hear,
With due regard, a king's and father's prayer!
My dear, dear Pallas, if the fates ordain
Safe to return, and bless these eyes again:
With age, pain, sickness, this one blessing give;
On this condition I'll endure to live.
But oh! if fortune has decreed his doom,
Now, now, by death, prevent my woes to come;
Now, while my hopes and fears uncertain flow,
Now, ere she lifts her hand to strike the blow;
While in these feeble arms I strain the boy,
My sole delight, my last surviving joy.
Ere the sad news of his untimely doom
Shall bow this head with sorrow to the tomb!”

Christopher Pitt

Book VIII, line 776
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Death , God , Pain , Fate

“Thrice round her neck my eager arms I threw;
Thrice from my empty arms the phantom flew,
Swift as the wind, with momentary flight,
Swift as a fleeting vision of the night.”

Christopher Pitt

Book II, line 1064
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Night

“Be this your nobler praise in times to come,
These your imperial arts, ye sons of Rome!
O'er distant realms to stretch your awful sway,
To bid those nations tremble and obey;
To crush the proud, the suppliant foe to rear,
To give mankind a peace, or shake the world with war.”

Christopher Pitt

Book VI, line 1209
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

War , World , Peace , Art

“Be sure from nature never to depart;
To copy nature is the task of art.
The noblest poets own her sovereign sway,
And ever follow where she leads the way.”

Christopher Pitt

Book II, p. 69
Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

Art , Way , Nature

“Arms! arms! my friends, with speed my arms supply,
'Tis our last hour, and summons us to die;
My arms!—in vain you hold me,—let me go—
Give, give me back this moment to the foe.
'Tis well—we will not tamely perish all,
But die revenged, and triumph in our fall.”

Christopher Pitt

Book II, line 899
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Revenge , Speed

“Ah, mighty Queen! you urge me to disclose,
And feel, once more, unutterable woes.”

Christopher Pitt

Book II, line 3
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Feeling

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