 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...and demolished * It is not possible to have the true ictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the ings or great personages of much later... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durahle than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllahle or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have heen decayed,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...? 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... | |
 | Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - 304 pages
...WE see how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 398 pages
...then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 396 pages
...monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For Lave not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred...demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years;... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...then, how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands ; for have not the verses of Homer continued...letter ? during which time infinite palaces, temples, and cities have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...then, how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which... 
