John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Book II, ode xiv
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293
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