 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...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...verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 páginas
...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...more durable than the monuments of power or of the bauds. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 páginas
...in effect, the strength of all other humane desires ; we see then how far the monuments of wit aud learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the bauds. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...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...palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 páginas
...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...without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time,*infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible... | |
 | Leeds grammar sch - 1828 - 364 páginas
...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, are more desirable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For, have not the verses of Homer continued... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 576 páginas
...Sotheby. "Have not the verses of Homer," says Lord Bacon, «' continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter, during which time infinite palace?, temples, cas. ties, cities, have decayed or been demolished?" It is wen so ; and, it' this... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 páginas
...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...palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no,... | |
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable 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 or letter; during which time... 
