 | John Beattie Crozier - Philosophers - 1898 - 626 pages
...to say : — • No, brood of Nilus ! Nothing can cover his high fame but heaveu ; No pyramids set off his memories But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which 1 leave him. ' Or again, those beautiful lines in Cymbeline where Aviragus bringing in the body of... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...brood of Nilus, Nothing can cover his high f;ime, but heaven ¡ No pyramids set off his memories, 40 But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which I leave him. Take the head away, And, with the body, give it noble burial : Your earth shall now be blest to hold... | |
 | John McAuley Palmer - 1901 - 684 pages
...dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.' "But— 'No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which I leave him.' " CHAPTER XXXVI. The meeting of the Democratic state committee — Democratic leadership — Douglas... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1901 - 372 pages
...immortality ! They speak of monuments ! " Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories But the eternal substance of his greatness ; To which I leave him." JUDAH PHILIP BENJAMIN Judah P. Benjamin was born at St. Croix, in the West Indies, in 181 1. His parents... | |
 | John McAuley Palmer - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 684 pages
...dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.' "But— 'No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which I leave him.1 " CHAPTER XXXVI. The meeting of the Democratic state committee — Democratic leadership —... | |
 | John McAuley Palmer - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 680 pages
...dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, I,eave not a rack behind.' "Bub— 'No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which 1 leave him.' " CHAPTER XXXVI. The meeting of the Democratic state committee — Democratic leadership... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 pages
...monuments fit for him ! No, brood of Nilus, Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which I leave him.' It is something worth living for, to write or even read such poetry as this is, or to know that it... | |
 | Harr Wagner - American literature - 1902 - 580 pages
...victorious in war, magnanimous in peace, — " Nothing can cover his high tame, but Heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness ; To which I leave him." But of the rank and file, of the unknown dead, what can be i^aid? Sleep on, O humble soldier boy, sleep... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 442 pages
...! No, brood of Nilus, Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven ; No pyramids set off his memones, But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which I leave him.' It is something worth living for, to write or even read such poetry as this is, or to know that it... | |
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Nothing can cover his high fame, but heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness, To which I leave him. 
