Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity... Literary gems [ed. by J.S.]. - Page 399by Literary gems - 1826Full view - About this book
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1896 - 252 pages
...gladly say, "Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim? 1 " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an s art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. [2] In vain we hope to be known by open and Reflections visible conservatories, when to be unknown... | |
| 1897 - 510 pages
...truth. Time finds out everything and is the wisest of all. Though time, as Sir Thomas Browne said, " antiquates antiquities and hath an art to make dust of all things," it does not destroy but is always an " isthmus between two eternities." It is the " grand discloser... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 pages
...promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim t Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...become considerable, and some old philosophers would honor them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and to... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...diuturnity I2 unto his relics, or might not gladly say, Sit ego componi, versus in ossa, velim ."* Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. '-i < /"/ »'/ v In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...promise such diutumity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim t Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all tilings, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories,... | |
| 1899 - 704 pages
...universal Here, so is it an everlasting N ow. Carfy/t, Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir Themas Browne. Time, as it is, cannot stay : Nor again, as it was, can it be ; , Disappearing and... | |
| 1901 - 436 pages
...such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, "Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim "? Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...become considerable, and some old philosophers would honor them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and to... | |
| 1901 - 440 pages
...such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, "Sic ego componi versus in ossa volim "? Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...become considerable, and some old philosophers would honor them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and to... | |
| Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - 1901 - 432 pages
...such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim " ? Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...become considerable, and some old philosophers would honor them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and to... | |
| Robert Blatchford - 1901 - 266 pages
...diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say — ' " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ?" Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. ... If they fell by long and aged decay, yet, wrapped up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction,... | |
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