 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 350 pages
...far-stretched 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 jacet.' Nor is this all, mighty Death ! It is thou that leadest to the resurrection of the dead ; the dissolution... | |
 | 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, and sole part of all... | |
 | 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 History... | |
 | 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, and... | |
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