| Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 430 sider
...more glowing and original expressions, the poetic sap which flows through all the minds of the age. "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Ilerostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
| Charles Mills - 1879 - 398 sider
...highroad to fame. Tickler. And yet nothing is, perhaps, more mutable, for, as old Thomas Browne says, " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy,...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." How few of the many aspirants who throng the paths of literature attain the longedfor prize ! Whilst... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sider
...exceeds an infamous history. The Cauaauitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief,...Pilate. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth fcer poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit or perpetmty: who can but... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 428 sider
...antiquity. Yet, notwithstanding this, "the iniquity of oblivion," in the words of Sir Thomas Browne, " blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." The students of antiquity attached less value than we do to literature of secondary importance. It... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sider
...exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief,...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? Herostmtus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1880 - 404 sider
...for miles underground — alone prove how mighty must have been the Syracuse of Dionysius. Truly, " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy,...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." Standing on the beach of the Great Harbor or the Bay of Thapsus, we may repeat almost word by word... | |
| 1881 - 578 sider
...exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with obert burned the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 sider
...Ilerodias* with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief3 than Pilate?3 But the iniquity4 of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals...pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana,3 he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's3 horse, confounded... | |
| Mary Cowden Clarke - 1858 - 484 sider
...might had rescued her from what Sir Thomas Browne calls, " the iniquity of oblivion," which, he says, "scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." Petrarch's poetry had imbued Laura's name with an undying charm that sufficed to render her very dust... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 sider
...exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? * The character of death. t "Cuperem notuui case quod aim non opto ut sciatur quails si in." But... | |
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