...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...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished f It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or...

...celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wil and learning are more durable than the monuments of...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the...

...the desire of memory, lame and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see, then, how far the monuments of wit and learning...which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, havo been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of statues of Cyrus,...

...the 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...

...lime, When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry;" for "We see how far the monuments of wit and learning are more...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished. The images of men's wits remain in books, exempt from wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation."...

..." in that whereunto man's nature doth most aspire, which is immortality." "The verses of Homer have continued twenty-five hundred years, or more without the loss of a syllable or letter. It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cœsar ; but the images...

...not the verses of Homer continued twenty-rive hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllabic or letter ; during which time, infinite palaces, temples,...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished I It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cvrus, Alexander, Cresar ; no, nor of...

...effects of this poeticall inuention might be alledged. Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (ed. Arber), p. 41. During which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished. Bacon, Adv. of Learning, i. 8, § 6 (ed. Wright, p. 72). The troublers of the world, such as was Lucius...

...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...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Coesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;...

...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...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 time infinite...