...launched into the world of letters the grotesque style and invited it to accept such couplets as this : Let not a monument give you or me hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. or this : Forgetting each omission is a loss to The world, not quite so great as Ariosto. or, There's...

...Another despot of the kind.' Byron's allusion in Don Juan to Cheops is not very distinct : he ' . . . erected the first Pyramid And largest, thinking it...thing To keep his memory whole and mummy hid.' But there is no doubt about the allusion to Herodotus at the end of Byron's great burlesque epic : —...

...contrast to the jovial desperation of his later poem : " What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking...hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops." From being affected, he has become effective. And it was not only in Don Juan that Byron had learned...

...original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking...hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. 160 But I, being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, "Alas! All things that have been...

...doctrine of the blessed Trinity" ("Do not start, my dear Coleridge"), Byron at Venice was writing: Let not a monument give you or me hopes Since not a pinch of dust is left to Cheops. Both Byron and Arnold, in their respective manners, were extreme; and yet the vast...

..."midnight taper," Canto I.] [Canto II. ccxix. What are the hopes of man Г Old Egypt's King Cheope erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mommy hid: Bat somebody or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid Let not a monument...

...original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking...hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. (1.218-19) But this is not yet the end of this digressions descent into the sepulchral. "Philosophy"...

...otherwise be lost and unknown to history. CHAPTER SEVEN Geology and genealogy: Hardy's 'The Well-Beloved1 Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. (Byron, Donjuán, Canto i, stanza 219) In his book, The Art of Death, Nigel Llewellyn writes of the...

...'Ozymandias' in recording the inevitable disappearance of even the most apparently permanent monument: 'Let not a monument give you or me hopes, / Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops' (stanza 219). Finally, Byron ends the canto, three stanzas later, by quoting lines from Southey's 'L'Envoy'...

...Science in the Popular Novel: Jane Webb Loudon's The Mummy! What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first Pyramid And largest, thinking...thing To keep his memory whole and mummy hid; But somehody or other rummaging, Burglariously hroke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me...