 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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...durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For hove not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable... | |
 | John Emmett Richardson - 1927 - 404 páginas
...aspiration of the human Soul. We see then how far the monuments of genius and learning are more durable than monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not...time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have decayed and been demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 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...demolished? 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 ;... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour - 1969 - 1452 páginas
...commentary of its own. Milton's "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit," Bacon's "monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands," Richard de Bury's panegyric of them as "wells of living waters, delightful ears of corn, combs of honey,... | |
 | Ohio State University. Alumni Association - 1921 - 542 páginas
...they might, in fact, render the service of precedent for other alumni and friends of the school. "We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...durable than the monuments of power or of the hands," said Bacon, speaking of books, and by inference, the gift of them. TRAUTMAN "Red" Trautman, '14, RESIGNS... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - 336 páginas
...the fundamental universal human aspiration, he observes, still in the vein of the well-known topos, how far the monuments of wit and learning are more...palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished?8 The verses of Homer survived for twenty-five hundred years not because they were continually... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 páginas
...years later he enlarged upon this thought in the following passage of The Advancement of Learning. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. . . . The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ;. no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years • for the originals -can not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 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...the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite0 palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed0 and demolished? It is not possible... | |
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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... 
