 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 Seiten
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 Seiten
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter j during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ?... | |
 | 1838 - 534 Seiten
...and learning, are more durable than the monument» of power or of the hands ; for have not the versea of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more,...loss of a syllable or letter ? —during which time, infinité palaces, templet, ciutlfi, cities have been decayed and demolished. It is not possible to... | |
 | J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 102 Seiten
...bewitching. And this it is that hath made poetry the most continuous and abiding. " We see/' says Bacon, " how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than monuments of power or of the hands ; for have not the verses of Homer continued o two thousand five... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 Seiten
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have jtot the verses of Homer continued twenty.five hundred years, or more, without the loss pf a syllable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 590 Seiten
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 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 Seiten
...where discord can never enter, and where brethren dwell in endless union. IMMORTALITY OF LEARNING. . We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 Seiten
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 Seiten
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other humane desires ; we see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which... 
