 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 strani
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or...leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wite and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 strani
...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, Alexander, Oaisar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last:... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 strani
...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It ia not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of mu»h later years ; for the originals can not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 strani
...; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...originals cannot last : and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 strani
...the work of love. But I would remind you of what Lord Bacon has so thoughtfully and so truly said, " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 strani
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed, and demolished ? It is not possible tc have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 strani
...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, Alexander, Cffisar, no, nor of (he kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last:... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 strani
...; 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, Cresar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 strani
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or " statuaes '" (statues) of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar, no, nor of the kings, or great personages of much...cannot last, and the copies cannot but " leese " of (lose something of) the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 strani
...the work of love ; but I would remind you of what Lord Bacon has so thoughtfully and so truly said, " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cassar, no, nor the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
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For have not the verses of 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... 
