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, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether... Histoire de la littérature anglaise - Page 400by Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 2409 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...to live as long as Agamemnon, •without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable p«irsons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there b£not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| 1831 - 602 pages
...пив, and oblivion shares with memory * Pcat part етеп of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of men be known : or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? — The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either... | |
| England - 1828 - 964 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselali's long life had been his only chronicle." 1 Thebes has been more fortunate than either... | |
| 1820 - 394 pages
...night of forgotten things,—a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion,—does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...forgotten things, — a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion, — does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the -everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time? the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? the first man bad been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long...only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot,...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Ike first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
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