 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial...they died. They put me in mind of several persons 117 mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names given them, for no other reason... | |
 | 1868 - 522 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial...them, but that. they were born and that they died. The life of these men is finely described in Holy Writ by ' the path of an arvow,' which is immediately... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble', as a kind of satire' upon the departed persons, who had left no other' memorial...them, but that they were born', and that they died\ Upon my going into the church', I entertained myself with the digging of a grave \ and saw in every... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the how much servitude the client's spirit can descend...and the crowd about him, my lord's parts are usually he_roic poems, who have sounding names given them, for no other reason but that they may be killed,... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as à kind of satire upon the ious industry a man may observe here in a far greater...in towns and cities. I have before hinted at some o luind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names given them,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them but that they were Ijorn, and that they died. They put me in rnind of several persons mentioned in the i'attles of heroic... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pages
...hut look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial...them, but that they were born and that they died. The life of these men is finely described in Holy Writ by ' the path of an arrow,' which is immediately... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - Architecture - 1840 - 56 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons, who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and that they died 0 ." my memory, but only a fair fiat marble stone to be laid over me.—And I do very much desire my... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the 0 *"3 1842 Harper"# Addison Joseph" Joseph Addison( put_me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...Church, attached to Ely Cathedral. of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons, who had left no other memorial of...them, but that they were born and that they died." ' Collins, in his exquisite lines on the death of Colonel Ross, gives to that brave soldier a grave... | |
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... buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of... 
