 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...applauded, after the close of the drama, is pourtrayed as the favourite of " every virtue under heaven." To save the opulent from oblivion, the sculptor unites...be remembered, that epitaphs and monuments decay. Had not Cicero been assisted by his memory, he could never have deciphered the mutilated verses on... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 324 pages
...applanded, after the close of the drama, is portrayed as the favourite of " every Virtue under heaven." To save the opulent from oblivion, the sculptor unites...be remembered, that epitaphs and monuments decay. Had not Cicero been assisted by his memory, he could never have deciphered the mutilated verses on... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 266 pages
...applauded, after the.close of the drama, is pourtrayed as the favourite of ' every virtue under heaven.' To save the opulent from oblivion, the sculptor unites...be remembered, that epitaphs and monuments decay. Had not CiThe observations of the illustrious Johnson on epitaphs are marked with acuteness as well... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poets, English - 1834 - 336 pages
...or the poet, whilst the rustic is indebted for his mite of posthumous renown to the carpenter, th« painter, or the mason. The structures of fame are,...whose duration is short It may check the sallies of pridtt to reflect on the mortality of men; but for its complete humiliation, let H be remembered, that... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 332 pages
...applauded, after the close of the drama is portrayed as the favourite of every virtue under heaven. To save the opulent from oblivion the sculptor unites...the sallies of pride to reflect on the mortality of men ; but for its complete humiliation, let it be remembered, that epitaphs and monuments decay. "J... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...poet, whilst the rustic is indebted for Ins mite of posthumous renown to the carpenter, the joiner, or the mason. The structures of fame are, in both...built with materials whose duration is short. It may cheek Ui« sallies of pride to reflect on the mortality of men; t>"< his complete humiliation, let... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...posthumous renown to the carpenter, the painter, or the mason. The structures of fame are, in both cásea, built with materials whose duration is short. It may...the sallies of pride to reflect on the mortality of men ; but for its complete humiliation lot it be remembered that epitaph« and monument« decay."]... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1925 - 438 pages
...accounting as it does for twenty effigies and twelve brasses. Well might old bishop Horne write: " To save the opulent from oblivion, the sculptor unites...be remembered that epitaphs and monuments decay." Still, in spite of all this destruction, purposeful and otherwise, there are a fair number of effigies... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poets, English - 1834 - 340 pages
...applauded, after the close of the drama is portrayed as the favourite of every virtue under heaven. To save the opulent from oblivion the sculptor unites...the sallies of pride to reflect on the mortality of men ; but for its complete humiliation, let it be remembered, that epitaphs and monuments decay."]... | |
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To save the opulent from oblivion the sculptor unites his labours with the scholar or the poet, whilst the rustic is indebted for his mite of posthumous renown to the carpenter, the painter, or the mason. The structures of fame are, in both cases, built... 