 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pagina’s
...inscriptions, (says sir Thomas Brown,) to hope for eternity by aenigmatical epithets, or initial letters, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations to the student of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages,"... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pagina’s
...which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pagina’s
...which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we Satients, or Achilles' horses in Homer, under naked nominaons, without deserts or noble acts, which... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pagina’s
...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting lang&ages. " To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pagina’s
...being taken up, and oiher hoilie* laid under them 2D read by bore inscriptions, like many in GrUter ;* to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies,t are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting ftmguages. To... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter;|| to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...of our names ; to be studied by antiquaries, who we * That the world may last but six thousand years. t Hector's fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah,... | |
 | 1820 - 398 pagina’s
...To be read by bare inscriptions, like many iu Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epitheis, or first letters of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pagina’s
...survivors'. To be read by bare in4 scriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters of our names ; to be studied...names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation* THE MIRROR. unió the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. " The night... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 444 pagina’s
...stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages." An affinity of thoughts and purposes brought me at length in closer contact with the elderly man. His... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pagina’s
...survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters of our names, — to be...students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. The night of time far surpasseth the day: who knows when was the aequinox ? Every hour adds unto that... | |
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To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto... 
