| Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1804 - 416 pages
...and exclaim with that masterly genius, genius*, " O eloquent, just, and mighty death! whom none have dared ; thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...ambition of man ; and covered it all over with these too narrow words — Hie JACET!" I have more than once had occasion to animadvert on the facilities... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...rottenness, and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty death ! whom none could advise, thou Last persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done ;...and covered it all over with these two narrow words, " Hicjacet,"* SIR WALTER RALEGH. IT is the greatest glory of a christian to die daily, in conquering,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 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...man, and covered it all over with these two narrow word?, Hicjacet." by Milton* in 8vo., 1668. Of all of them, as well as of his MS. Remains, scattered... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 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...man, and covered it all over with these two narrow wordf, Hicjacet," * Of these, perhaps, his ' Instructions to his Son and to Posterity' deserve a distinct... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 590 pages
...and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the farrestretched greatness, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words — Hie jacet." Sir Walter, perhaps, had not forgotten the complaint of the Roman emperor, " How mournful... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...whom none could advise, Ihou hast persuaded ! u 2 what none hath dared, thou hast done ! and, whom aU the world hath flattered, thou, only, hast cast out...ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two naiTOw words, Hie JACET !"* SIR JOHN HARINGTON. This agreeable beau of Elizabeth's court does not make... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 552 pages
...despised. Thou hast drawn together all the tar-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty and amhition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hicjacet. Raleigh. Not long since a celebrated society discussed Ihe well-known and frivolous question,... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none have dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet. Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself, The First Part of the General... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 pages
...rottenness ; and they acknowledge it. Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded : what none have dared, thou hast done : and whom all the world hath...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition, of man ; all the powerful charms of beauty; and covered it all over will) these two narrow words, ' Hie jacet.'... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1825 - 350 pages
...rottenness ; and they acknowledge it. Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded : what none have dared, thou hast done : and whom all the world hath...greatness^ all the pride, cruelty, and ambition, of man ; all the powerful charms of beauty ; and covered it all over with these two narrow words, • Hie... | |
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