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" 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... "
Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ... - Page 117
by Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 579 pages
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A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1871 - 564 pages
...rottenness, and they acknowledge it. Oh, eloquent, just, and mighty Death I whom none could advise, thon hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words — Hio JACF.T. CHAPTEE XL FBANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...ideas and tone of a Bossuet.1 Picture Saint Paul's in London, and the 1 ' O eloquent, just, and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded...hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...ideas and tone of a Bossuet.1 Picture Saint Paul's in London, and the 1 ' O eloquent, just, and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded...hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...and the 1 ' 0 eloquent, just, and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thon hast persuaded ; \Ykat none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the...hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, erueltie, and ambition of mau, and...
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Papers from a Parsonage

Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pages
...Death !" exclaimed Sir Walter Raleigh,* " whom none could advize, thou hast perswaded ; what none have dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie Jacet." In another and more general form,...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 626 pages
...behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit ;' but who believes it till Death tells it us ? . . . . 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet! Mr. Mitford was the first Englishman...
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The Golden Treasury of Thought: A Gathering of Quotations from the Best ...

1873 - 530 pages
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...till Death tells it us ? . . . . 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, t hon hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet.' Mr. Mitford was the first Englishman...
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A history of English literature for junior classes

Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 264 pages
...TO DEATH. (From the "History of the World.") "Oh, 'eloquent, just and mighty Death! whom none oould advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared,...world, and despised; thou hast drawn together all tho far-stretched greatness, all tho pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 734 pages
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