 | James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 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 died1." Collins, in his exquisite lines on the death of Colonel Ross, gives to that brave soldier a... | |
 | William Twopeny, John Henry Parker - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 70 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 diedc." my memory, but only a fair flat -marble stone to be laid over me. — And I do very much desire... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble', as a kind of satirev 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...look upon these registers of existence — whether l>rass or marble — as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were bom, and that they died. TJpon my going into the church, I entertained myself with the digging of a... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself with the digging of a grave, and saw in every shovelful... | |
 | 1853 - 524 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...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. r\a,vKov TC, M«8oVro re, 8eptri\ox6v -re. "Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque."... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1853 - 546 pages
...registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who left no other memorial of them, but that they were...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. 1 rXaCxdv T€ t/lMvra Tf Qepiri\ox6i> «.' HOM. 1 Glaucumque, Medontaqne, Thersilochnmqne.'... | |
 | 1853 - 756 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...but that they were born, and that they died. They pnt me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 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. 2. Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself with the digging of a grave, and saw in every... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...look upon these registers of existence — whether 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. Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself with the digging of a grave ; and saw in every... | |
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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... 
