 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - 1925 - 454 Seiten
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." In a rich poetic style Sir Thomas Browne writes : "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 376 Seiten
...Contests and Disputes, I reflect with Sorrow and Astonishment on the little Competitions, Factions, and Debates of Mankind. When I read the several Dates...Contemporaries, and make our Appearance together. ON LONDON CRIES JOSEPH ADDISON Lingua centum sunt, orague centum, Ferrea vox.1 — VIRGIL. THERE is... | |
 | Official Fellow and Tutor in English Literature David Womersley - 2005 - 370 Seiten
...Contests and Disputes, I reflect with Sorrow and Astonishment on the little Competitions, Factions, and Debates of Mankind. When I read the several Dates of the Tombs, of some that dy'd yesterday, and some six hundred Years ago, I consider that great Day when we shall all of us be... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 280 Seiten
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together.' Note the melody and strength in these four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 283 Seiten
...of mankind. And, when I read the several dates on the tombs of some that died yesterday and some 600 years ago, I consider that Great Day when we shall...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same subject. You will have observed in the previous extracts... | |
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... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,... 
