John Ogilby citations

John Ogilby est un traducteur, impresario et cartographe écossais. Il est célèbre pour son Britannia Atlas de 1675, l'un des premiers atlas routiers anglais qui fixe les standards du genre. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. novembre 1600 – 4. septembre 1676
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John Ogilby: Citations en anglais

“Suffer thou with patience this delay.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“This cruel Prince that made his Will a Law.”

John Ogilby

Fab. XII: Of the Frogs desiring a King
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

“But who art thou? that Voyce, and beauteous Face,
Not Mortal is; thou art of Heavenly Race.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Britany, from all the World disjoyn'd.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks

“They say the Deity
Is mix'd through Earth, the Sea, and lofty Skie.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks

“Robber of Man, who now shall give thee ayd?”

John Ogilby

Fab. VI: The Battel of the Frog and Mouse, line 136
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

“Pray for wet Summers, Winters wanting Rain.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks

“But them I'm not so foolish to believe.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks

“Fury our Judgement charms,
And we conceive it brave to dye in Arms.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Taught by my Woes, to succour the distrest.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Having drown'd her sparkling Eyes in tears.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“And could'st thou hope, perfidious, to deceive
Me thus? and secretly our Kingdom leave?”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“None can Protect themselves with their own Shade.
None for themselves are born.”

John Ogilby

Fab. XLVII: Of the Rebellion of the Hands and Feet
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

“No Beast is half so False as Man.”

John Ogilby

Fab. XLIX: Of the Fox and the Cock
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

“Mean time the Queen wounded with deep desire,
Bleeds inward, and consumes in hidden Fire.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Ah! who may hope, when Heaven hath Help deni'd!”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Then in a chair, with a rich cushion grac'd
And a carv'd foot-stool, he Minerva plac'd.
There 'gainst a column sets her lance, where stood
Ulysses' javelins, planted like a wood.”

John Ogilby

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)

“Various Arts by study might be wrought
Up to their height.”

John Ogilby

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.”

John Ogilby

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.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Great things to compare with Small.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
Variante: If I may great things compare with Small.

“Happy is he that hidden causes knowes.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks

“Love Conquers all, let us submit to Love.”

John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks

“Sweet Youth, in Colour no such trust repose.”

John Ogilby

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?”

John Ogilby

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

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