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“While memory lasts and pulses beat,
The thought of Dido shall be sweet.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 124

“Is there, friend,' he cries, 'a spot
That knows not Troy's unhappy lot?”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 23

“Fury and wrath within me rave,
And tempt me to a warrior's grave.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 52

“O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?”

John Conington

Book II, satire viii, p. 94
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires

“Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.”

John Conington

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

“In vain she strives with dying hands
To wrench away the blade:
Fixed in her ribs the weapon stands,
Closed by the wound it made.
Bloodless and faint, she gasps for breath;
Her heavy eyes sink down in death;
Her cheek's bright colors fade.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XI, p. 427

“Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77

“They reach the realms of tranquil bliss.
Green spaces folded in with trees,
A paradise of pleasances.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215

“I heard, fear-stricken and amazed,
My speech tongue-tied, my hair upraised.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77

“Snatch him, ye Gods, from mortal eyes!”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 101

“Who hopes by strange variety to please,
Puts dolphins among forests, boars in seas.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 172

“We have been Trojans: Troy has been:
She sat, but sits no more, a queen.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53

“E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 23

“From me you fly! Ah! let me crave,
By these poor tears, that hand you gave—
Since, parting with my woman's pride,
My madness leaves me nought beside—
By that our wedlock, by the rite
Which, but begun, could yet unite,
If e'er my kindness held you bound,
If e'er in me your joy you found,
Look on this falling house, and still,
If prayer can touch you, change your will.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 123

“Blank verse really deserving the name I believe to be impossible except to one or two eminent writers in a generation.”

John Conington

Preface to The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), p. ix

“There are few writers whose text is in so satisfactory a state as Virgil's.”

John Conington

Preface, p. xi
Commentary, P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume I (1858)

“No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods.”

John Conington

Book IV, ode viii
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“Hush your tongues from idle speech.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 146

“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 48

“War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood
I see incarnadined with blood.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 189