 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 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...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochnmque, — the life of these men is finely described... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 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...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 shovel-full... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 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...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. HOM. Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque. VERG. 1 The life of these men is... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the her dying, he made a visit to the widow, who was totally...first appearance, in open day, in her own house, knocked on the head. . . . The life of these men is finely described in holy writ by " the path of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 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...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. rlavx6v je, MtSovTii TS, QeQatlo^6v if. HOM. IL." p. 2l6. Glaucumque, Medontaque,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the anner neither entirely criminal, nor absolutely innocent,...suffer pains proportioned to their faults, till, knocked on the head. . . . The life of these men is finely described in holy writ by " the path of... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1879 - 446 pages
...to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence 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." — Works, vol. ii. p. 424. While with the " Spectator " at Westminster Abbey, we are reminded of what... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a land of satire upon the orian's elbow, was very attentive to everything pnt me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1882 - 428 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...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. r\avir6v rf N(Sovr& rf ®epai\o\6v rf. HOM. Glaucumque, Medontaque. Thersilochumque.... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 324 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...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. TAavtcoi' re, MeSovra re, ©epcriXoxoi* re. Glaiic-umquc, Afedontaque, Tkersilochnmqve.... | |
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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... 
