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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Page 219
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 632 pages
...names, as some have done in 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 be too short for our designes. To extend our memories by Monuments, whose death we dayly pray for, and whose duration we...
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pages
...present considerations seems a vanity almost out of date and superannuated piece of folly.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...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great muta15 tions of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Translations Into Greek Verse and Prose

Richard Dacre Archer-Hind - 1905 - 260 pages
...considerations seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly.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. "Pis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Seventeenth Century Prose

Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 pages
...considerations seems a vanity 10 almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. "Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 626 pages
...considerations, seemes a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated peece of folly.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 of Janus holds no proportion to the other. "1'is to late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may...
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 82 pages
...considerations, seemes 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 to the other. 'T is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 pages
...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...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Century Readings for a Course in English Literature

John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pages
...names as some have done mortality. in their persons : one face of Janus holds * * * no proportion to the other. 'T is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of From HYDRIOTAPHIA URN- 50 the world are acted, or time may be too BURIAL short for our designs. To...
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A History of English Prose Rhythm

George Saintsbury - 1912 - 518 pages
...j 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...| of Janus holds | no proportion | unto the other. | 'Tis too late | to be ambitious. | The great | mutations | of the world | are acted, | or time |...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...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...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. "Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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