 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...more glowing and original expressions, the poetic sap which flows through all the minds of the age. ' 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...sap which flows through all the minds of the age. ' But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattercth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...sap which flows through all the minds of the age. ' But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattercth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...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 - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * » » But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids T Heroslratus lives, that burnt the temple of Diana! he is almost lost that huilt it. Time hath spared... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 478 pages
...merit of peipetuity : who can but pity thé founder of thé pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt thé temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it; time hath spared thé epitaph of Adrian's horse; confounded that of himself. In vain we cûmpute our felicities by thé... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1874 - 364 pages
...for miles underground — alone prove how mighty must have been the Syracuse of Dionysius. Truly " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy,...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." Standing on the beach of the Great Harbour or the Bay of Thapsus, we may repeat almost word by word... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scatter eth her poppy, and deals with the memory "i men without distinction to merit of perpetuity Who can but pity the founder of the pyramid-' Herostratus lives that burned the temple «'• Diana, he is almost lost that built it ;... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Biography as a literary form - 1876 - 404 pages
...seldom now do we hear their names mentioned ? Well and truly does rare old Sir Thomas Browne say, " Oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with...lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse — confounded that of himself. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or, whether... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 430 pages
...more glowing and original expressions, the poetic sap which flows through all the minds of the age. "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Ilerostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
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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,... 
