And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly.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... The Retrospective Review - Page 911820Full view - About this book
| Herbert Bates - 1918 - 640 pages
...Costly followers are not to be liked, lest while a man make his train longer, he make his wings shorter. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be nameless in worthy... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 pages
...Elias, and Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector. And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. T is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 180 pages
...the Prophecy of Elias, and Charles the fift can never hope to live within two Methusela's of Hector. of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names,...their persons, one face of Janus holds no proportion to the other. Tis to late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 174 pages
...our memories unto present considerations, seemes a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated peece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face pf Janus holds no proportion to the other. 'Tis to late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...Elias,4 and Charles the Fifth can never expect to live within two Methuselah* of Hector.' And therefore se's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,...call forth to action 2 humor by assenting Yet ev'n J anus 6 holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...and Charles the fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselas of Hector. And therefore restlesse , Tenderest of Ro peece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one... | |
| Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 pages
...preservations. But in this latter scene of time, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated...long in our names as some have done in their persons. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1927 - 240 pages
...to live fo long pace was in our mmes, as fome have done in their extant, perfons, one face ofj&xtft holds no proportion unto the other. "Tis too late to be ambitious. The greatmujEations of the world are afted, or timemayE^too (hort for our defignes, To extend our memories... | |
| 1912 - 538 pages
...literature is a question that it is quite safe and easy to leave for Time's unhurried decision. ' Rest' less inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto...considerations seems a vanity almost out of date, 'and a superannuated piece of folly.' William Sharp accomplished what Matthew Arnold called very creditable... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 pages
...presem eonsiderations seems a vanity almost out of date and superannuated pieee of folly. We eannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons; one faee ol Ianus holds no proportion umo the other.11 Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations... | |
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