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" Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus,... "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ... - Page 291
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of llie kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last : and the copies...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 504 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last,...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 502 pages
...kings or great personages of mu'ih Inter years ; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? Ceesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,...
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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the...personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and...
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Cicero's Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 pages
...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to havo the true pictures of statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the...personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...as in his Advancement of Learning, 1633 : " It is not possible to have the true pictures or slatuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." The measure evidently requires that it be a word of three syllables here, as also in Act iii. sc. 2...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; no, nor of tho kings or great personages of much later years ; for...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cassar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last:...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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