 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,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 471894Full view - About this book
 | Hippolyte Taine - 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... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...him reverence. 4. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. 5. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana : he is almost lost that built it. G. To write and speak correctly f'ves a grace and gains a favourable attention to what one has to say.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? " But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...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... | |
 | 1879 - 336 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...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... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1879 - 398 pages
...highroad to fame. Tickler. And yet nothing is, perhaps, more mutable, for, as old Thomas Browne says, " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy,...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." How few of the many aspirants who throng the paths of literature attain the longedfor prize ! Whilst... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 428 pages
...antiquity. Yet, notwithstanding this, "the iniquity of oblivion," in the words of Sir Thomas Browne, " blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." The students of antiquity attached less value than we do to literature of secondary importance. It... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...rather have been the good thief, than Pilate. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth fcer poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit or perpetmty: who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids. Herostratus lives that ournt the temple... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? Herostmtus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1880 - 404 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 Harbor or the Bay of Thapsus, we may repeat almost word by word... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? / burned the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's... | |
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