Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests... Essays on Style, Rhetoric, and Language - Strona 162autor: Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - Liczba stron: 251Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| George Burnett - 1807 - Liczba stron: 556
...the next, whereof metbinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - Liczba stron: 1152
...the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard «nder ground, and thin wqlls of cfcy, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it; and... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - Liczba stron: 546
...these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and...above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and trumpHugs of three conquests ; what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not... | |
| 1820 - Liczba stron: 774
...chapter of his Umburial. " Now that these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of the Methuselah, and in a yard underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong ind spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests,... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - Liczba stron: 402
...thing be said of the ruins of Babylon equal to the following celebration of a few sepulchral urns ? " Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and... | |
| 1825 - Liczba stron: 620
...Browne's noblest essay, '• had outlasted the living ones of Methusalem, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests." Superstition chooses the... | |
| 1825 - Liczba stron: 648
...Browne's noblest essay, " had outlasted the living ones of Methusalem, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests." Superstition chooses the... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - Liczba stron: 668
...funeral-rites, or as an emblem of resurrection from its perpetual verdure, may also admit conjecture. . CHAP. V. Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methusaleh, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious... | |
| 1826 - Liczba stron: 548
...the burial ceremonies of Christians back to pagan time's, and closes with the following reflections.] Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it, and quietly... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - Liczba stron: 718
...theirs, CHARTEES. HYDRIOTAPHIA, OR URN BURIAL. " The Sripios' urn contains no aikei now."—BYROK. Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly... | |
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