| Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 pagina’s
...without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost...Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we com- | pute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pagina’s
...and old families last not three oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it: time hath spared the cpiuiph of Adrian's horse; confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pagina’s
...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the 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 that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pagina’s
...and old families last not three oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt 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... | |
| 1883 - 760 pagina’s
...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... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagina’s
...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.... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 pagina’s
...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana,6 he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared...of Adrian's* horse, confounded that of himself. In vnin we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagina’s
...families last not three oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Heroetratus liven forth, to case my pain. Along the shore of silver-streaming...and savage locality as often as he sued to leave i oor felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations; and Thersltes Is... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pagina’s
...can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he i» almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph...of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vaiii we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, .since bad have equal duration... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1891 - 480 pagina’s
...Herostratus lives that burnt thé temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it; time hath spared thé epitaph of Adrian's horse; confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by thé advantage of our good names, since bad hâve equal durations; and Thersites is liketolive as long... | |
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