| Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1804 - 416 pages
...and exclaim with that masterly genius, genius*, " O eloquent, just, and mighty death! whom none have dared ; thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...and ambition of man ; and covered it all over with these too narrow words — Hie JACET!" I have more than once had occasion to animadvert on the facilities... | |
| Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...nakedness and noisomeness with others. " О eloquent, just and mighty Death !" said Sir Walter Raleigh, " whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou bast done; a:ul (10.) Howtll's Ep'ut. vol. 1. $ pp ail,— fu.) Hob, Tnv, 1, ap vol. d. Ait.u LewU... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...rottenness, and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty death ! whom none could advise, thou Last persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done ;...and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, " Hicjacet,"* SIR WALTER RALEGH. IT is the greatest glory of a christian to... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...believes ' this, till death tells it us ? It is death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. O eloquent, just, and mighty death ! Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded : whaf none hath dared, thou hast done : and, whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness; and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow word?, Hicjacet." by Milton* in 8vo., 1668. Of all of them, as well as of his MS.... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness; and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow wordf, Hicjacet," * Of these, perhaps, his ' Instructions to his Son and to Posterity'... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 590 pages
...O eloquent, just, and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hatli dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the farrestretched greatness, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...whom none could advise, Ihou hast persuaded ! u 2 what none hath dared, thou hast done ! and, whom aU the world hath flattered, thou, only, hast cast out...and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two naiTOw words, Hie JACET !"* SIR JOHN HARINGTON. This agreeable beau of Elizabeth's court... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 552 pages
...could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none have dared, thou hast done; and whom, all the world has flattered thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the tar-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty and amhition of man, and covered it all over with these... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1825 - 350 pages
...rottenness ; and they acknowledge it. Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded : what none have dared, thou hast done : and whom all the world hath...greatness^ all the pride, cruelty, and ambition, of man ; all the powerful charms of beauty ; and covered it all over with these two narrow words, • Hie... | |
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