 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pagine
...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 - 624 pagine
...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 Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pagine
...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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pagine
...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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cscsar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 - 1824 - 642 pagine
...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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pagine
...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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagine
...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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
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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... 
