John Conington: Quotes about death

John Conington was British classical scholar. Explore interesting quotes on death.
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“Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 55

Death

“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”

John Conington

Book III, ode i
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

Death

“Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails
The lapse of gliding years to stay,
With wrinkled age it nought avails
Nor conjures conquering Death away.”

John Conington

Book II, ode xiv
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

Death , Age

“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

Death , Color

“A lethargy of sleep,
Most like to death, so calm, so deep.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 209

Death , Sleep

“At Orcus' portals hold their lair
Wild Sorrow and avenging Care;
And pale Diseases cluster there,
And pleasureless Decay
Foul Penury, and Fears that kill,
And Hunger, counsellor of ill,
A ghastly presence they:
Suffering and Death the threshold keep,
And with them Death's blood-brother, Sleep.”

John Conington

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

Death , Hunger , Fear , Disease

“Tis come, our fated day of death.”

John Conington

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

Death , Fate