John Conington: Quotes about God

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“Comrades and friends! for ours is strength
Has brooked the test of woes;
O worse-scarred hearts! these wounds at length
The Gods will heal, like those.”

John Conington

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

God , Heart

“The gods implore
To crush the proud and elevate the poor.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 180

God

“If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 27

Men , God

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

John Conington

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

God

“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)

God

“O ye Gods, and O great Jove,
Have pity on a father's love
And hear Evander's prayer:
If 'tis your purpose to restore
My Pallas to my arms once more;
If living is to see his face,
Then grant me life, of your dear grace:
No toil too hard to bear.
But ah! if Fortune be my foe,
And meditate some crushing blow,
Now, now the thread in mercy break,
While hope sees dim and cares mistake,
While still I clasp thee darling boy,
My latest and my only joy,
Nor let assurance, worse than fear,
With cruel tidings wound my ear.”

John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 295

Love , Life , God , Fear