HydriotaphiaUniversity Press, 1922 - 146 pages |
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... Sepulchres , were anci- ently affected in cadaverous , and corruptive Burials ; And the rigid Jews were wont to garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous ; Ulysses in Hecuba cared not how meanly he lived , so he might finde a noble Tomb ...
... Sepulchres , were anci- ently affected in cadaverous , and corruptive Burials ; And the rigid Jews were wont to garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous ; Ulysses in Hecuba cared not how meanly he lived , so he might finde a noble Tomb ...
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... Sepulchres , we meet with Rings , Coynes , and Chalices ; Ancient frugality was so severe , that they allowed no gold to attend the Corps , but onely that which served to fasten their teeth . Whether the Opaline stone in this Urne were ...
... Sepulchres , we meet with Rings , Coynes , and Chalices ; Ancient frugality was so severe , that they allowed no gold to attend the Corps , but onely that which served to fasten their teeth . Whether the Opaline stone in this Urne were ...
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... Sepulchres . For beside their real Tombs , many have found honorary and empty Sepulchres . The variety of Homers Monuments made him of various Countreys . Euripides had his Tomb in Attica , but his sepulture in Macedonia . And Severus ...
... Sepulchres . For beside their real Tombs , many have found honorary and empty Sepulchres . The variety of Homers Monuments made him of various Countreys . Euripides had his Tomb in Attica , but his sepulture in Macedonia . And Severus ...
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... sepulchres , which he had made for himself in the city of David , and laid him in the bed which was filled with ... sepulchre of his father and his brethren , and raised it aloft to the sight , with hewn stone behind and before ...
... sepulchres , which he had made for himself in the city of David , and laid him in the bed which was filled with ... sepulchre of his father and his brethren , and raised it aloft to the sight , with hewn stone behind and before ...
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... Sepulchres . Compare Matthew xxiii . 29 : " Woe unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets , and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous . " Ulysses in Hecuba : i.e. in Euripides , Hecuba ...
... Sepulchres . Compare Matthew xxiii . 29 : " Woe unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets , and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous . " Ulysses in Hecuba : i.e. in Euripides , Hecuba ...
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Page 120 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 103 - FROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey.
Page 44 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of. these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead and slept with princes and counsellors might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism, not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
Page 136 - Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 54 - So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 135 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 139 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past!
Page 102 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 104 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Page 98 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.