 | Ernest Adams - 1862 - 310 pages
...Hooker. (6) Pronoun : Where the enamoured sunny light Brightens her that was so bright. — Wordsworth. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it.— Sir T. Browne. (c) Infinitive in -ing : Now leave complaining, and begin your tea. — Pope. (d) Infinitive... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pages
...comme une attente d'insensés 1 . » 1. But the iniquity of obliïion blindly scattereth her poppy, ant deals with the memory of men without distinction to...lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse ; confounded thit of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herosiratus lives, that burnt the temple of Diana! he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pages
...comme une attente d'insensés1. » 1. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, ant deals with the memory of men without distinction to...perpetuity : who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? llerostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it; time hath spared... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattcreth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our... | |
 | 1856 - 502 pages
...noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the ' entelechia ' and soul of our subsistences ? " " But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." " In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Heroslratus lives, that burnt the temple of Diana ! he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity : who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus1 lives that burned the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it : 2 time hath... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...Pilate 1 * The character of death. f "Cuperem notum esse quod aim non opto ut sciatur quails sim." But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our... | |
 | 1869 - 384 pages
...xxi. 9 ; Isa- lviii. 4 ; S. Matt. vi. 16. — P. Sketion. V. 25. — A certain woman. The antiquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . But to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more... | |
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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. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations,... 
