 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...  Poems - Page 114by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of...and covered it all over with these two narrow words, HIC IACET. SIR W. RALEIGH 428. EDWIN, KTNG OF NORTHUMBERLAND, SUMMONS A CONFERENCE OF HIS PAGAN PRIESTHOOD,... | |
 | Charles Selby - Great Britain - 1864 - 374 pages
...world, and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretehed greatness, all the pride, eruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words — Hicjacet.** whom ho exhorted to bear a tender affection for his wife, but to preserve a consistency... | |
 | Morning dew - 1864 - 340 pages
...thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far -stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words, " Hie jacet." WARBTJRTON. " No present health can health insure,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...dared, thou hasi 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...pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words — Hie JACET. Besides his great work, Sit Walter wrote a large number... | |
 | Words, Horatius Bonar - Christianity - 1866 - 370 pages
...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...and ambition of man, and -covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hicjacet. 8. There is not the smallest accident, which may seem unto man as... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1866 - 144 pages
...hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched...pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words — Hicjacet. APPENDIX ON PROSODY. Although such belongs rather to... | |
 | J. S. Whale - Religion - 1976 - 204 pages
...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 : Hie facet I' In the second place, Death is the supremely tragic fact. By 'tragic' I do not mean 'sad',... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - History - 1983 - 646 pages
...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 greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambitions of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet. It is clear from... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world ence Hicjacetl SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618). English author, soldier, explorer. History of ¡he World,... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 312 pages
...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. (Sir Walter Ralegh, The Historie of the World) When Ralegh wrote these words he had good... | |
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