 ... blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.  Studies in the Technique of Prose Style - Page 99by Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of " Adrian,s horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...and Thersites is like to live .as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who • knows whether the best of men be known, or... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...our good names, since bad have equal durations ; and Thersitcs is like to live as long as Agamemnon, •without the favour of the everlasting register.... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there b£not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... | |
 | England - 1828 - 964 pages
...burned the temple of Diana — he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...burnt the temple of Diana, be is almost lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the -everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...burnt the temple of Diana, be is almost lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad hare equal durations: and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time that spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favor of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known f or whether... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...burned the temple of Diana — he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...the temple of Diana; lit* is ill most bist that built it: time hath siwred 1 he epitaph of Adrian's n the worst inn's worst room, with mat. half-hung, , Th вшсе bad have equal durations ; and Thersites 10 like to live «s long ae Agamemnon, without the... | |
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