| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...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 - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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 - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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 - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...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 - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...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 - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...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 - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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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