 | 1848 - 936 pages
...greatness can never perish, had thus vanished before the breath of the Destroyer, he exclaimed : " O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could...hast persuaded ; what none hath dared thou hast done ; whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far- stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 710 pages
...and whcm all the world hath flattered, thou only hast oast out of the world and despised : thou host is embracing the Roman Catholic faith. Satisfied or...overpowered by the prospect of an infallible guide, all over with these two narrow word«. Hie Jaatr familiar without grossness." The prose works of Cowley... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...figure, which is full of pathos and eloquence, on the evanescent nature of human pride and grandeur. " 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered all over with these... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1851 - 444 pages
...Oceana." The most suitable epitaph for Raleigh would be that noble passage in his great work,—" 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hast flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 pages
...beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity ; and they acknowledge it. only hast cast out and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty and amhition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet.—RALEIGH. PBge 189,... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...which a great one, departed,* closed his grandest labors. "Oh, eloquent, just, and mighty dentii ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what...all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast iut of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Biography - 1852 - 610 pages
...dared, thou hast done ; whom all the world hath flattered, hast thou despised and cast out of the world. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of men, covering all with but those two narrow words — Hie jacet." This passage possibly suggested to... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them gee therein their deformity ; and they acknowledge it. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none have dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world have flattered, thou only hast cast out and despised... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness — and they acknowledge it. " 0 eloquent, just, and mighty death ! whom none could...and covered it all over with these two narrow words — Mcjacet. " Lastly : whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself ' The First Part of the... | |
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O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched... 
