 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...the desire of memory, fame and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...more durable than the monuments of power or of the haneH For have not tho verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 páginas
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration ; and in effect, the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 páginas
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration; and in effect, the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 páginas
...see then how far the nafeaum,ent8 of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of pJ^rer or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other humane desires : we see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...verses of Homer continued twentyfive hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 páginas
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It ia not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; no, nor of the kings... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 páginas
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration ; and in effect, the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 páginas
...continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which lime infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ctesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last:... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 páginas
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration ; and in effect, the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monunfents of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 páginas
...desire of meirory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...been decayed, and demolished ? It is not possible tc have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages... | |
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which... 
