Book I. Compare Pope's translation:
: The spear receiving from her hand, he plac'd
Against a column, fair with sculpture grac'd;
Where seemly rang'd in peaceful order stood
Ulysses' arms, now long disus'd to blood.
Homer His Odysses Translated (1665)
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The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Various Arts by study might be wrought
Up to their height.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“Dear Friends, for we have many Dangers past,
And greater, God these too will end at last.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“May you live happy, you whose Woes are done.
Stern Fates, to Fates more cruel, us constrain.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Great things to compare with Small.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
Variant: If I may great things compare with Small.
“Happy is he that hidden causes knowes.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“Love Conquers all, let us submit to Love.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“Sweet Youth, in Colour no such trust repose.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“How could my Son so highly thee incense
What was the wasted Trojans great offence?”
Compare John Dryden's translation:
How could my pious son thy pow'r incense?
Or what, alas! is vanish'd Troy's offense?
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Now fields are green, and trees bear silver buds.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“Bacchus loves the Sunny hills.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“O Divine Poet, me thy Verses please
More than soft slumber laid in quiet ease.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“Here sweet Meads, cool Fountains be,
Here Groves where I could spend my Age with thee.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“They that have Power to do, may, when they will,
Pick Quarrels, and, pretending Justice, kill.”
Fab. XIV: Of the Wolf and the Lamb
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“Vanquisht men's safety is to hope for none.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis