| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 páginas
...only chronicle. . i ,; i .. . .:, in:. ^:-„>,..:,i. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater put must be content to be as though they had not been,...man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story,* and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
| 1820 - 398 páginas
...decked with unrejoicing berries !" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime : " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must...of man. Twenty,seven names make up the first story, and the rtcorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...nut. to be hired : the greatest part must b« content to be я& though they had not 1хчч1 ; tobo ކ>l a ! name» make up the first story before the Flood: and the recorded пашен ever since contain not... | |
| 1831 - 370 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story,* and the recorded * Before the flood. names ever since contain not one living century. The number of... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story,* and the recorded * Before the flood. • names ever since contain not one living century. The number... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead ! Bent is his tiead of age; red his tearful eye. Ossian. Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Sir Thomas Browne. So in the circle of the arts, Did he advance his natnral parts, Jnst as a dog, that... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 páginas
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. SIR THOMAS BROWN'S Urn Burial. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris. Both... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 páginas
...man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicleOblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content...in the register of God, not in the record of man.. Twenty seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| 1836 - 694 páginas
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man." Such is the moral of the " Hydriotaphia." In his own words, that " there is nothing strictly immortal... | |
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