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John Conington was an English classical scholar. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott. He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 till his death. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. august 1825 – 23. október 1869
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“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”

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

“Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel
Fate's book is closed and under seal.
For us, alas! that volume stern
Has many another page to turn.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 96

“Now for a heart that scorns dismay:
Now for a soul prepared.”

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

“Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be,
And think each day that dawns the last you'll see;
For so the hour that greets you unforeseen
Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.”

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Book I, epistle iv, p. 108
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles

“Now dews precipitate the night,
And setting stars to rest invite.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39

“Then should some man of worth appear
Whose stainless virtue all revere,
They hush, they list: his clear voice rules
Their rebel wills, their anger cools.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 10

“A critical sense of style and of poetic form is not easy to attain, nor is it of first importance for the younger, or, indeed, for any student of Virgil. Wide open to anyone who is willing to learn is the richer knowledge of Virgil as a poet who loved his country and who loved also that humanity which existed before Rome, exists today within ourselves, and will exist long after our own civilization, like that of Virgil's Rome, has become a matter of "ancient history." It is true that the longer one has lived the better one can appreciate a poem which is concerned with life. But the gain that comes to us with the years depends, partly at least, upon the riches we have been willing to extract from literature, which is the experience of other men and women written out. In youth's search for this treasure the Aeneid will be at once a fair haven and a port of departure.”

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Introduction<!--was the Introduction written by John Conington or by the editors?--> to The Aeneid of Virgil (Chicago and New York: Scott Foresman and Company, 1916), p. 45; partially quoted in School and Home Education, Vol. 35 (1916), p. 172

“Thou too take courage, wealth despise,
And fit thee to ascend the skies,
Nor be a poor man's courtesies
Rejected or disdained.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 286

“Fear proves a base-born soul.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 109

“Me, guilty me, make me your aim,
O Rutules! mine is all the blame;
He did no wrong, nor e'er could do;
That sky, those stars attest 'tis true;
Love for his friend too freely shown,
This was his crime, and this alone.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324

“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 175

“The journey down to the abyss
Is prosperous and light:
The palace gates of gloomy Dis
Stand open day and night:
But upward to retrace the way
And pass into the light of day
There comes the stress of labour; this
May task a hero's might.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 191

“A woman's will
Is changeful and uncertain still.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 134

“Along the illimitable shade
Darkling and lone their way they made,
Through the vast kingdom of the dead,
An empty void, though tenanted:
So travellers in a forest move
With but the uncertain moon above,
Beneath her niggard light.”

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

“Sleep gives his name to portals twain;
One all of horn, they say,
Through which authentic spectres gain
Quick exit into day,
And one which bright with ivory gleams,
Whence Pluto sends delusive dreams.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 228

“Each for himself, we all sustain
The durance of our ghostly pain;
Then to Elysium we repair,
The few, and breathe this blissful air.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 220

“Huge, awful, hideous, ghastly, blind.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 103

“Tis thus that men to heaven aspire:
Go on and raise your glories higher.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 333

“They can because they think they can.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 153

“What's kept at home you cancel by a stroke:
What's sent abroad you never can revoke.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 188

“My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 138

“A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.”

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Georgics, Book I, p. 39
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)

“Thus, severed by the ruthless plough,
Dim fades a purple flower:
Their weary necks so poppies bow,
O'erladen by the shower.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324

“Here sees he the illustrious dead
Who fighting for their country bled;
Priests who while earthly life remained
Preserved that life unsoiled, unstained;
Blest bards, transparent souls and clear,
Whose song was worthy Phoebus' ear;
Inventors who by arts refined
The common lot of human kind,
With all who grateful memory won
By services to others done:
A goodly brotherhood, bedight
With coronals of virgin white.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 217

“She calls it marriage now; such name
She chooses to conceal her shame.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 117

“Why reel I thus, confused and blind?
What madness mars my sober mind?”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XII, p. 436

“She turned, and flashed upon their view
Her stately neck's purpureal hue;
Ambrosial tresses round her head
A more than earthly fragrance shed:
Her falling robe her footprints swept,
And showed the goddess as she stept.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 21

“This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215

“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.”

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

“No, had I e'en a hundred tongues,
A hundred mouths, and iron lungs,
Those types of guilt I could not show,
Nor tell the forms of penal woe.”

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Zdroj: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215