Creator
MAECENAS
Title
Works
Coverage
AMSTELDAM
Publisher
DIRKONDER DE LINDEN
Date
1764
Subject
Lost in antiquity.
Description
Swans sing before they die – ‘t were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing. - Coleridge.
Maecenas will never be remembered for his poems, but he will have an imperishable home on the side of Mt. Parnassus for being dear Horace’s patron and for giving him the country villa of which Horace would write:
This it was for which I prayed ....
It is good: I ask no more.
Should certain persons die before they sing. - Coleridge.
Maecenas will never be remembered for his poems, but he will have an imperishable home on the side of Mt. Parnassus for being dear Horace’s patron and for giving him the country villa of which Horace would write:
This it was for which I prayed ....
It is good: I ask no more.
Source
Opera