 Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...  Histoire de la littérature anglaise - Стр. 400авторы: Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - Страниц: 2409Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 548
...to live as long as Agamemnon, •without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 556
...like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable p«irsons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - Страниц: 546
...favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there b£not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 602
...пив, and oblivion shares with memory * Pcat part етеп of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of men be known : or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? — The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either... | |
 | 1828 - Страниц: 964
...our good names, since bad have equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselali's long life had been his only chronicle." 1 Thebes has been more fortunate than either... | |
 | 1820 - Страниц: 394
...night of forgotten things,—a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion,—does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - Страниц: 402
...forgotten things, — a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion, — does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 380
...like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the -everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not...that stand remembered in the known account of time? the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 372
...remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? the first man bad been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long...only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 374
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot,...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Ike first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
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