 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...not possible to have the true ictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the ings or great personages of much later years ; for the...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have heen decayed, and demolished ? It is not possihle to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,...much later years ; for the originals cannot last, aud the copies cannot hut lose of the life aud truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - 304 pages
...letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ' It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ca;sar; no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 396 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1849 - 398 pages
...and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 398 pages
...and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot I • 42 THE DRAMA GENERALLY, but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 400 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ca?snr ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...or letter, during which time infinite palaces, temples, and cities have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, and Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or the great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot... | |
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Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus,... 
