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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... "
Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... - Page 80
by Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 228 pages
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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture

Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! . . . whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn...and covered it all over with these two narrow words: Hicjacet! There is something at work here which recalls that interplay of power and desire in Sir Thomas...
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 13

Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1875 - 546 pages
...beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. Oh, eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! Whom none could...covered it all over with these two narrow words, — Hie jacet " / In conclusion, we can hardly doubt that the speech was made substantially as it has been...
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Facing Death: Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet, Part 4

Howard Marget Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, Lee Palmer Wandel - Medical - 1998 - 244 pages
...with a remarkable tribute to the power of death. "O eloquent, just and mightie Death!" he exclaimed, "Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what...hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie and ambition of man, and...
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Death, Desire, and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore - Family & Relationships - 1998 - 424 pages
...flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of...covered it all over with these two narrow words: Hie jacet! (History, p. 396) An adoring identification with a ruthless omnipotence is made from an experience...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...happily strike out his teeth. 9370 The History of the World O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! ... 6569 In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make t ambitlon of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet [Here lies). 9371 'As...
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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 420 pages
...persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these...
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The Living Spirit: Prayers and Readings for the Christian Year

Margaret Hebblethwaite - Religion - 2000 - 452 pages
...most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just and mighty Death! whom none could advise,...thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Sir Walter Raleigh I am no longer afraid of death, I know well its dark and cold corridors leading...
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The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Joanne Morra, Mark Robson, Marquard Smith - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 282 pages
...him, is always deferred.... It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could...done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised, (p. 396) Submission to, and an adoring identification with,...
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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

William James Bouwsma - History - 2002 - 328 pages
...of death over all: O eloquent, just and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all...hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatness, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and...
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...Walter Raleigh's Historie of the World (book V, part I, chapter VI): "O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded;...world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty London Letter, May 1921 1. The essay was first published...
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