 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable...temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable...temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no, nor of the... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cscsar ; no, nor of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...of power or of the bauds. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twentyfive...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar; no, nor of the... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twentyfive...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar; no, nor of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five...palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no,... | |
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time... 
