 Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 4591838Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 páginas
...character of death. f "Cuperem notum esse quod aim non opto ut sciatur quails sim." But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | 1869 - 384 páginas
...xxi. 9 ; Isa- lviii. 4 ; S. Matt. vi. 16. — P. Sketion. V. 25. — A certain woman. The antiquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . But to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 páginas
...subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * • * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? Herostratus lives, that burnt the temple of Diana! he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...sap which flows through all the minds of the age. ' But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattercth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...sap which flows through all the minds of the age. ' But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattercth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 páginas
...without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids T Heroslratus lives, that burnt the temple of Diana! he is almost lost that huilt it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1874 - 364 páginas
...underground — alone prove how mighty must have been the Syracuse of Dionysius. Truly " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." Standing on the beach of the Great Harbour or the Bay of Thapsus, we may repeat almost word by word... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 páginas
...than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scatter eth her poppy, and deals with the memory "i men without distinction to merit of perpetuity Who can but pity the founder of the pyramid-' Herostratus lives that burned the temple «'• Diana, he is almost lost that built it ;... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 404 páginas
...seldom now do we hear their names mentioned ? Well and truly does rare old Sir Thomas Browne say, " Oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana — he is almost lost that built it ; time hath... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.) - 1877 - 240 páginas
...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 and speak correctly f'ves a grace and gains a favourable attention to what one has to say.... | |
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