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“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12

“Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel
Fate's book is closed and under seal.
For us, alas! that volume stern
Has many another page to turn.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 96

“Now for a heart that scorns dismay:
Now for a soul prepared.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 197

“Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be,
And think each day that dawns the last you'll see;
For so the hour that greets you unforeseen
Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.”

John Conington

Book I, epistle iv, p. 108
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles

“Now dews precipitate the night,
And setting stars to rest invite.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39

“Then should some man of worth appear
Whose stainless virtue all revere,
They hush, they list: his clear voice rules
Their rebel wills, their anger cools.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 10

“A critical sense of style and of poetic form is not easy to attain, nor is it of first importance for the younger, or, indeed, for any student of Virgil. Wide open to anyone who is willing to learn is the richer knowledge of Virgil as a poet who loved his country and who loved also that humanity which existed before Rome, exists today within ourselves, and will exist long after our own civilization, like that of Virgil's Rome, has become a matter of "ancient history." It is true that the longer one has lived the better one can appreciate a poem which is concerned with life. But the gain that comes to us with the years depends, partly at least, upon the riches we have been willing to extract from literature, which is the experience of other men and women written out. In youth's search for this treasure the Aeneid will be at once a fair haven and a port of departure.”

John Conington

Introduction<!--was the Introduction written by John Conington or by the editors?--> to The Aeneid of Virgil (Chicago and New York: Scott Foresman and Company, 1916), p. 45; partially quoted in School and Home Education, Vol. 35 (1916), p. 172

“Thou too take courage, wealth despise,
And fit thee to ascend the skies,
Nor be a poor man's courtesies
Rejected or disdained.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 286

“Fear proves a base-born soul.”

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Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 109

“Me, guilty me, make me your aim,
O Rutules! mine is all the blame;
He did no wrong, nor e'er could do;
That sky, those stars attest 'tis true;
Love for his friend too freely shown,
This was his crime, and this alone.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324

“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 175

“The journey down to the abyss
Is prosperous and light:
The palace gates of gloomy Dis
Stand open day and night:
But upward to retrace the way
And pass into the light of day
There comes the stress of labour; this
May task a hero's might.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 191

“A woman's will
Is changeful and uncertain still.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 134

“Along the illimitable shade
Darkling and lone their way they made,
Through the vast kingdom of the dead,
An empty void, though tenanted:
So travellers in a forest move
With but the uncertain moon above,
Beneath her niggard light.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 197

“Sleep gives his name to portals twain;
One all of horn, they say,
Through which authentic spectres gain
Quick exit into day,
And one which bright with ivory gleams,
Whence Pluto sends delusive dreams.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 228

“Each for himself, we all sustain
The durance of our ghostly pain;
Then to Elysium we repair,
The few, and breathe this blissful air.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 220

“Huge, awful, hideous, ghastly, blind.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 103

“Tis thus that men to heaven aspire:
Go on and raise your glories higher.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 333

“They can because they think they can.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 153

“What's kept at home you cancel by a stroke:
What's sent abroad you never can revoke.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 188