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... Great Ralegh - Page 304by Hugh De Sélincourt - 1908 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...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 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 - 624 pages
...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 these two narrow wordf, Hicjacet," * Of these, perhaps, his ' Instructions to his Son and to Posterity' deserve a distinct... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...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 these two narrow word?, Hicjacet." by Milton* in 8vo., 1668. Of all of them, as well as of his MS. Remains, scattered... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 590 pages
...hast cast out of the world 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
...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 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
...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 these two narrow words, Hicjacet. Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself, The First Part of the General... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...of the world, and despised, thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched greatness, all the cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet. — Sir W. Raleigh — on the Monuments of Princes. DCCCXL. (Adam to Eve) Sole partner,... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 510 pages
...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 these two narrow words, Hie jacet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of the General... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...of the world, and despised, thou hast drawn together all the far-fetched greatness, all the cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.—Sir IV. Raleigh—on the Monuments of Princes. DCCCXL. - (Adam to Eve ) Sole partner,... | |
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