 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 Seiten
...Caasar might have stood against the world : now lies he there, and none so poor to do him reverence. 4. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. 5. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana : he is almost lost that built it. G. To write... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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...names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, Mid have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 598 Seiten
...stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Grater; * to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...were, and have new names given us, like many of the mummies,f are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. To... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...and sadly tell us now we may bo buried iu our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three tfaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 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. Sir Thomai Browne, H ydriotaphia. TIME. FAST as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts... | |
 | David Thomas - 1880 - 444 Seiten
...memories, and sadly tell how we mny 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." "Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear, 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 Seiten
...our survivors. Gravestones toll truth scare.* forty years. Generations pass whll-j some trees eland. and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare fnaeriptions like many in Grnter. (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.6 Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter,1 to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...and sadly tell ns now we may be buried in onr survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana:... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 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...letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who wo were, and have new names given us, like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students... | |
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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... 
