 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...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 161842Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1875 - 572 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 " / In conclusion, we can hardly doubt that the speech was made substantially as it has been reported.... | |
 | Andrew Dousa Hepburn - English language - 1875 - 298 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." Raleigh. Cautions with respect to using it.—1. As the use of this figure is prompted by the instinctive... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1875 - 588 pages
...thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of mnn, and 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 reported.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 554 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! " Mr. Mitford was the first Englislimaii who attempted, in emulation of Gibbon, to write at length... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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!—The History of the World. VOL. i. c 4. The Defence of Passes and Fords. THE winning of this... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, Hicjactt ! In another of his works, Raleigh tells, in the following vigorous language, wherein lies... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 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 : Micjacet. There remains one added paragraph. " Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...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 covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet." no books but some big folio of dramas, well dog's-eared by his pages, and his prayer-book... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1877 - 668 pages
...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 two narrow words : Hie jacet. THE END OF THE jFirst Oolume OF AN ENGLISH GARNER. UNW1H BSOTHERS, THE GRP.SHAM HKCSS, CH1LWORTH AND... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 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 /8 SIR WALTER RALEIGH : 1553-1618. A PASTOEAL FESTIVAL. SCENE, — A Lawn before a Shepherd?... | |
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