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
| John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...wholesome odour. Act v. Sc. 3. With clink of hammers 3 closing rivets up. Act v. Sc. 3. 1 Hcrostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. — Sir Thomas Browne, /'.•:; Burial, Ch. v. [Richard III. continued. Perish that thought! No, never... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 pages
...Pilate ? * The character of death. t "Cuperem notuui case quod aim non opto ut sciatur quails si in." 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 com- | pute... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...Ilerodias* with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief3 than Pilate?3 But the iniquity4 of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals...pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana,3 he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's3 horse, confounded... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not Ihrce oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus...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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus...the temple of Diana: he is almost lost that built If. time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse; confounded that of himself. In vain we compute... | |
| Mary Cowden Clarke - 1858 - 484 pages
...might had rescued her from what Sir Thomas Browne calls, " the iniquity of oblivion," which, he says, "scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." Petrarch's poetry had imbued Laura's name with an undying charm that sufficed to render her very dust... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1883 - 354 pages
...mighty must have been the Syracuse of Dionysius. Truly, "the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattered her poppy, and deals with the memory 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... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...the grave. Urn Burial, Ch. v. Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests. Ibid. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.5 Ibid. What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.... | |
| 1883 - 760 pages
...Newgate to Holborn, and so on to Tyburn. 3 Sir Thomas Browne writes, " Herost ratus lives [in memory] that burnt the Temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it." — Hydriotaphia, cap. v. p. 76, May, 1658. The Man that for Religion dyes Has nothing more before... | |
| William Aloysius Keleher - 1982 - 580 pages
...0-8263-0631^4. International Standard Book Number (paperbound) 0-8263-0632-2. "The iniquity of oblivion scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity . . . who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable... | |
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