Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity... Literary gems [ed. by J.S.]. - Página 399por Literary gems - 1826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Motherwell - 1873 - 554 páginas
...History of Musick, vol. ii. Pinkerton's Tragick Ballads. \ ously at work, to corrupt and annihilate it" " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments." The amiable platonist, Dr. Henry More, hath sung in his philosophical poem that, The soul's most proper... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...promise such diuturnity to his relics, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim. Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...considerable, and some old philosophers would honour them, whose souls they conceived were most pure, which thus were snatched from their bodies. If they fell... | |
| English authors - 1876 - 484 páginas
...promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim? Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...their continuation, and obscurity their protection. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been,... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1876 - 886 páginas
...chapters of the Rock-book on which the hieroglyphics of its history were written, are wanting ; yet " Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments ;" for it is certainly true that the Jurassic formations c.iQtiin a marvellously complete record of... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1876 - 908 páginas
...chapters of the Rock-book on which the hieroglyphics of its history were written, are wanting ; yet " Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments ;" for it is certainly true that the Jurassic formations contain a marvellously complete record of... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1908 - 548 páginas
...largest body of direct evidence is provided by the coins. They are like Sir Thomas Browne's urns : ' Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.' Their evidence, indeed, has up to the present remained practically unsifted ; the few numismatists... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1876 - 552 páginas
...improvement over, rather than a degeneration from, our remote ancestry ; and should we not be thankful to " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things," that he " hath yet spared these minor monuments" to us to prove the advance which we have made over... | |
| Charles C. Jones, Jr - 1878 - 350 páginas
...names like these that memory stays the engulfing waves of oblivion, and administers signal rebuke to " time which antiquates antiquities and hath an art to make dust of all things."* Did the limits of this sketch permit, it would be interesting to detail the efforts made by the parish... | |
| Charles Colcock Jones - 1878 - 263 páginas
...names like these that memory stays the engulfing waves of oblivion, and administers signal rebuke to " time which antiquates antiquities and hath an art to make dust of all things."* Did the limits of this sketch permit, it would be, interesting to detail the efforts made by the parish... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 páginas
...drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics ? Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open aud visible cooservatoriei, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their... | |
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