 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruterf, to hope for eternity by (enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, iike many in Gruterf, to hope for eternity by ^enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 Seiten
...inscriptions, (says sir Thomas Brown,) to hope for eternity by aenigmatical epithets, or initial letters, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations to the student of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages,"... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 Seiten
...the passionate desire of fame, from the slender relics which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter...antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting... | |
 | 1820 - 394 Seiten
...the passionate desire of fame, from the slender relics which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter;...of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we Satients, or Achilles' horses in Homer, under naked nominaons, without deserts or noble acts, which... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in G niter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | 1826 - 548 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.^ Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...of our names ; to be studied by antiquaries, who we * That the world may last but six thousand years. t Hector's fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah,... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.f Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be * The character of death. | Old oars being taken up, and oiher hoilie* laid under them 2D read by bore... | |
 | 1820 - 398 Seiten
...To be read by bare inscriptions, like many iu Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epitheis, or first letters of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting... | |
 | 1830 - 550 Seiten
...survivors'. To be read by bare in4 scriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters of our names ; to be studied...names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation* THE MIRROR. unió the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. " The night... | |
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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. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years : generations... 
