| 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...pride, cruelty, 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... | |
| 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 ;...pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, " Hicjacet,"* SIR WALTER RALEGH. IT is the greatest glory of... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...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...flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world, and dbspised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...rottenness; and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded : what none hath dared, thou hast done...pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow wordf, Hicjacet," * Of these, perhaps, his ' Instructions to his Son... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...rottenness; and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded : what none hath dared, thou hast done...pride, cruelty, 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... | |
| 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...pride, cruelty, 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... | |
| 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... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none have dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet. Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 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 will) these two narrow words, ' Hie jacet.'... | |
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