“In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.”
Quote by Virgil
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The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse by John Dryden
This volume includes translations of Virgil's epic poems, the Aeneid and the Georgics, as well as his pastoral poems, the Eclogues and the Bucolics. John Dryden's translations are renowned for their elegance and fidelity to the original Latin text. more
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