HydriotaphiaUniversity Press, 1922 - 146 pages |
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... funeral customs of all ages and countries , round man and his desire to be remembered , round death and immortality . The text of the present edition is from the first edition , 1658. It has been compared with later editions , and ...
... funeral customs of all ages and countries , round man and his desire to be remembered , round death and immortality . The text of the present edition is from the first edition , 1658. It has been compared with later editions , and ...
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... Funeral Pyre of Hector , burnt before the gates of Troy , and the burn- ing of Penthesilea the Amazonian Queen : and long con- tinuance of that practice in the inward Countries of Asia ; while as low as the Reign of Julian , we finde ...
... Funeral Pyre of Hector , burnt before the gates of Troy , and the burn- ing of Penthesilea the Amazonian Queen : and long con- tinuance of that practice in the inward Countries of Asia ; while as low as the Reign of Julian , we finde ...
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... funeral Feasts , their Lamentations at the grave , their musick , and weeping mourners ; how they closed the eyes of their friends , how they washed , anointed , and kissed the dead ; may easily conclude these were not meer Pagan ...
... funeral Feasts , their Lamentations at the grave , their musick , and weeping mourners ; how they closed the eyes of their friends , how they washed , anointed , and kissed the dead ; may easily conclude these were not meer Pagan ...
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... Funeral Pyre her Ghost appeared unto him . And notably illustrated from the Contents of that Roman Urne preserved by Cardinal Farnese , wherein besides great number of Gemmes with heads of Gods and Goddesses , were found an Ape of Agath ...
... Funeral Pyre her Ghost appeared unto him . And notably illustrated from the Contents of that Roman Urne preserved by Cardinal Farnese , wherein besides great number of Gemmes with heads of Gods and Goddesses , were found an Ape of Agath ...
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... they burnt the dead , found in the Esquiline Field at Rome , might have afforded clearer solution . But their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the Funeral Pyres of some Princes , URNE - BURIAL 27.
... they burnt the dead , found in the Esquiline Field at Rome , might have afforded clearer solution . But their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the Funeral Pyres of some Princes , URNE - BURIAL 27.
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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.