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" To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us, like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto... "
Cemetery interment - Page 60
by George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruterf, to hope for eternity by (enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, iike many in Gruterf, to hope for eternity by ^enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names,...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 8

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...inscriptions, (says sir Thomas Brown,) to hope for eternity by aenigmatical epithets, or initial letters, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations to the student of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages,"...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...the passionate desire of fame, from the slender relics which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter...antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1

1820 - 394 pages
...the passionate desire of fame, from the slender relics which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter;...of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we Satients, or Achilles' horses in Homer, under naked nominaons, without deserts or noble acts, which...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare...unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting lang&ages. " To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in G niter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 pages
...survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.^ Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare...of our names ; to be studied by antiquaries, who we * That the world may last but six thousand years. t Hector's fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah,...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...The character of death. | Old oars being taken up, and oiher hoilie* laid under them 2D read by bore inscriptions, like many in GrUter ;* to hope for eternity...were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies,t are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting ftmguages. To...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 1

1820 - 398 pages
...To be read by bare inscriptions, like many iu Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epitheis, or first letters of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting...
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