 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 pagina’s
...that exquisite and oftenquoted passage, " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...name than Herodias with one ; and who had not rather be the good thief than Pilate ? " That great satirist, Thackeray, in his powerful work " Vanity Fair,"... | |
 | E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 pagina’s
...is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; or, again, than But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with tfie memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity : ^y/lo can but pity the founder of the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 pagina’s
...how naturally, how artfully, the rhythm jails ! Take another, and, this time, a complete sentence^-" But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...men without, distinction to merit of perpetuity." Take yet another — " The brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes." And another —... | |
 | William Mathews - 1887 - 406 pagina’s
...and Thersites is likely to live as long as Agamemnon without the favor of the Everlasting Register. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one ; and who had rather not have been the good thief than Pilate ? " Even those who have basked longest in the sunshine... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pagina’s
...familiar faces, and at loatforyot tlutt he had ever been a poet. — Timba. 2143. FAME, Good and evil. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...and who had not rather have been the good thief than I'ilate ?— Sir ^liomo» Browne. 2144. FAME, Image of. Besides the letters (cuneiform inscriptions... | |
 | 1888 - 554 pagina’s
...age. One of these passages, if only for its exquisito rhythm, deserves to be transcribed at length: " But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of nen, without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids! 3erostratus... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 298 pagina’s
...Heliogabalus, King John or Richard III. ? "To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one ; and who would not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?"1 Kings and Generals are often remembered as... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 334 pagina’s
...and unto some the names of the old Egyptian kings, out of Herodotus. mous history. The Oanaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 330 pagina’s
...Herodotus. mous history. The Ganaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias,with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief,- than Pilate 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth- her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 pagina’s
...Heliogabalus, King John or Richard III.? " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one ; and who would not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? " l Kings and Generals are often remembered... | |
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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate? 
