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" Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests... "
English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers ... - Page 328
edited by - 1894
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the next, whereof metbinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted...and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted...and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard «nder ground, and thin wqlls of cfcy, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it; and...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 6

England - 1820 - 774 pages
...yard underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong ind spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests, what prince can pron.ise such diuturnity unto hit relics, and might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in osaa...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...thing be said of the ruins of Babylon equal to the following celebration of a few sepulchral urns ? " Now since these dead bones have already outlasted...and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 6

1820 - 784 pages
...yard underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests, what prince can pron.ise such diuturnity unto his relics, and might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 10

1825 - 648 pages
...gave occasion to Sir Thomas Browne's noblest essay, " had outlasted the living ones of Methusalem, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests."...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 10

Literature - 1825 - 620 pages
...gave occasion to Sir Thomas Browne's noblest essay, '• had outlasted the living ones of Methusalem, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests."...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...funeral-rites, or as an emblem of resurrection from its perpetual verdure, may also admit conjecture. . CHAP. V. Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methusaleh, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...theirs, CHARTEES. HYDRIOTAPHIA, OR URN BURIAL. " The Sripios' urn contains no aikei now."—BYROK. Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted...what prince can. promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, ,, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim.—Tibul. Time, which antiquates...
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