 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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. The life of these men is finely described in holy writ by "the path of an arrow,"... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 392 pages
...but look upon these Registers of Existence, whether of Brass or Marble, as a kind of Satyr upon the departed Persons; who had left no other Memorial of...put me in mind of several Persons mentioned in the Battels of Heroic Poems, who have sounding Names given them, for no other Reason but that they may... | |
 | 1897 - 282 pages
...of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left n0 other memorial of them, but that they were 10 born and that they died. They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the k1ttles of heroic poems, who have sounding names given them, for no other reason but that they may... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Authors - 1898 - 528 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Kenneth Deighton - 1901 - 252 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. 10 ' M^Sovr,i rt 0{pcrCXo\(Sv Tt. — Horn. Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - English essays - 1902 - 266 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\aO(c6>' rf yi^Sovrd re Qfp<Ti\ox/>" re. HOM. Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque.... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 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. The life of these men is finely described in holy writ by "the path of an arrow,"... | |
 | 1902 - 786 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. (4) " You must promise me first," said the schoolmaster, " that you'll not be... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 404 pages
...but look upon \hese registers of existence, jwhether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon tKe departed persons ; who had left no other memorial...be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head. Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque. — VIRGIL. (Glaucus, and Medon, and... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - English essays - 1903 - 384 pages
...go To story 'd ghosts and Pluto's house below. — (CREECH.) 2 Odes I. 4. kind of Satyr l upon the departed Persons ; who had left no other Memorial...put me in mind of several Persons mentioned in the Battels of Heroic Poems, who have sounding Names given them, for no other Reason but that they may... | |
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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... 
