 The Body of B. Franklin Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms, But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new &...  The Franklin Affair: A Novel - Seite 66von Jim Lehrer - 2005 - 224 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | James Madison Stifler - 1925 - 184 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author. APPENDIX I PREFACE TO "AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER" THE Editor of the following abridgment... | |
 | G. Thomas Couser - 1989 - 298 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms, But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author. (43-44n) Apart, perhaps, from his apparent confidence in his own resurrection, the implications of... | |
 | Michael Warner - 2009 - 228 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost. For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended by the Author.2 This epitaph has a metaphoric excess that makes it difficult to take literally. But that very... | |
 | Nian-Sheng Huang - 1994 - 304 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost, For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author,59 57. Edouard Laboulaye, Memoirs de Benjamin Franklin. Quoted from John Bigelow, The Life of... | |
 | Donald E. Pease - 1994 - 340 Seiten
...Self-Made Merchant to His Son (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1902), 4. believ'd, appear once more, ln new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the author. He was born January 6, 1706[.] Died 17 ."5 Over the years, Franklins and Franklinisms have been revised, not into... | |
 | Kevin Gilmartin - 1996 - 304 Seiten
...comic epitaph in which Benjamin Franklin imagined his deceased body as a book destined to reappear "in a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended by the Author."12 Versions of this comic fantasy did surface in Britain, but a more telling radical counterpart... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author. He was born Jan. 6. 1706. Died 17 On Simplicity The Enlightenment, Franklin's intellectual milieu, set a high value... | |
 | Jon Butler - 2001 - 337 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms, But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author.45 {248} NOTES INTRODUCTION What constitutes the "modern" is, of course, a matter of debate.... | |
 | Ryan P. Randolph - 2002 - 116 Seiten
...Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms, But the Work shall not be wholly lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author. This 1853 engraving shows the site of Benjamin Franklin's grave at Christ Church in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.... | |
 | Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock - 2004 - 300 Seiten
...in the "errata" confessed in his autobiography and in his "Printer's Epitaph," where he expected to "appear once more, / In a new & more perfect Edition, / Corrected and amended / By the Author" (91). Franklin and his Puritan forebears agreed that the successful life was an open book, even if... | |
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