 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 էջ
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 էջ
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 էջ
...without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids 1 Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 էջ
...without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids 1 Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1860 - 398 էջ
..." The iniquity of oblivion," apostrophiseth the eloquent Sir Thomas Browne, in his Hydriotophia, " blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids ? Erostratos lives, who burned the temple of Diana — he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | 1861 - 634 էջ
...Yet, possibly, his love. But no competent arbiter may determine — " For," continues Sir Thomas, " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy,...and deals with the memory of men without distinction of perpetuity. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it.... | |
 | 1861 - 636 էջ
...Yet, possibly, his love. But no competent arbiter may determine — " For," continues Sir Thomas, " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy,...and deals with the memory of men without distinction of perpetuity. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 էջ
...Herodotus. J " Cuperem notum esse quod sim, non opto nt sciatur qualis sim." — Card, in Vita propria. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Erostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 398 էջ
...fame. Fame, too, is capricious as fortune. " The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppies. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana ;...lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself." Age after age names drop out of the recorded calendar... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 էջ
...withoutJjslJnctioaLJSL-ment of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Erostratus 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 \vc compute our felicities by the advantage of... | |
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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 equal durations,... 
