 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1864 - 456 pagina’s
...Browne, in his quaint sublimity of style, " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Grtlter — to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names — to be studied by antiquarians who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1864 - 456 pagina’s
...for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names—to be studied by antiquarians who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages."* Yet, alas! how few of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pagina’s
...pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1868 - 512 pagina’s
...Browne, in his quaint sublimity of style, " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Griiter — to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names — to be studied by antiquarians who we were, aud have new names given us, like many of the mummies, — are cold consolation... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 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." Mere names, " naked nominations," as Browne calls them, "without deserts and noble acts, which are... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 456 pagina’s
...Brown, in his quaint sublimity of stylo, " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Griiter— to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names—to be studied by antiquarians who we were, and have new names given us, like many of the mummies,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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...names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, Mid have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity,... | |
 | Henry Scadding - 1878 - 50 pagina’s
...up in the name of a given place cannot be unwelcome. Sir Thomas Browne, in his " Urn burial," says: '.'To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, without * Bead before the Canadian Institute. caring whether they knew more of him, was a frigid ambition... | |
 | 1878 - 814 pagina’s
...up in the name of a given place cannot be unwelcome. Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Urn burial," says: "To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, without caring whether they knew more of him, was a frigid ambition in Cardan. For who careth," he... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pagina’s
...stand, and old families last not three tfaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be stndied by autiquaries who we were, and have new names given us, like many of the mummies, are cold... | |
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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... 
