Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of CyrusMacmillan, 1896 - 208 pages |
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Page xi
... 1-13 . P. 1. Shallowness of graves . the dead . Burial the older . 3. Two modes of disposing of 4. Antiquity of burning the dead . Extent of the practice of burning . 5. Roman ex- amples of burning . 7. Practice of the Brahmins .
... 1-13 . P. 1. Shallowness of graves . the dead . Burial the older . 3. Two modes of disposing of 4. Antiquity of burning the dead . Extent of the practice of burning . 5. Roman ex- amples of burning . 7. Practice of the Brahmins .
Page xvi
... graves , " in place of the much more poetic " knaved . " In the Notes will be found a collation of all the editions published during the author's lifetime , and presumably subjected to his revision , with references also to later ...
... graves , " in place of the much more poetic " knaved . " In the Notes will be found a collation of all the editions published during the author's lifetime , and presumably subjected to his revision , with references also to later ...
Page xxv
... grave " by the sexton . It appears that some workmen who were em- ployed in making a grave for the incumbent's wife accidentally broke into the vault which contained the coffin of Sir Thomas Browne . In some unexplained way they ...
... grave " by the sexton . It appears that some workmen who were em- ployed in making a grave for the incumbent's wife accidentally broke into the vault which contained the coffin of Sir Thomas Browne . In some unexplained way they ...
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... graves . ' Tis time to observe occurrences , and let nothing remarkable escape us : the supinity of elder days hath left so much in silence , or time hath so martyred the records , that the most industrious heads 2 do find no easy work ...
... graves . ' Tis time to observe occurrences , and let nothing remarkable escape us : the supinity of elder days hath left so much in silence , or time hath so martyred the records , that the most industrious heads 2 do find no easy work ...
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... graves . enquirers ; who , if two or three yards were open about the surface , would not care to rake the bowels of Potosi1 , and regions towards the 2 centre . Nature hath furnished one part of the carth , and man another . The ...
... graves . enquirers ; who , if two or three yards were open about the surface , would not care to rake the bowels of Potosi1 , and regions towards the 2 centre . Nature hath furnished one part of the carth , and man another . The ...
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Page 65 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Page 63 - ... with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of their vainglories, who acting early, and before the probable meridian of time, have by this time found great accomplishment of their designs, whereby the ancient heroes have already outlasted their monuments -and mechanical preservations. But in this latter scene of time, we cannot expect such mummies unto our memories, when ambition may fear the prophecy of Elias, and Charles the Fifth can never...
Page 66 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 91 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 64 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 65 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Page 62 - Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion.
Page 60 - Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim...
Page 68 - In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon : men have been deceived even in their flatteries above the sun, and studied conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven.
Page 63 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other.