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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 Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools

Simon Kerl - 1867 - 396 pages
...had stood fur ages, and mansions that had been built of stone.f 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death 1 whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what...the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out and despised0 1 Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...Edmund Spenser. 0 eloquent, just and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all...hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne together all the farre stretche'd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie and ambition of men, and...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...the classical sense, not merely as a synonym of advise. Others advise, death persuades and convinces. hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast...greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie jacet! BISHOP HALL.1 1. MEDITATION. (FROM...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory Notices

English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death I whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet! IIL RICHARD HOOKER. CIRCA 1553...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie jactt I 57. RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1598....
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Things New and Old: Or, A Storehouse of Similes, Sentences ..., Volume 1

John Spencer - 1869 - 656 pages
...history of the world in these words, O eloquent, just and mighty death, whom none could advise, thou only 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, HIC JAUET. Homo slatunx pames cafmt incurvabat,...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...acknowledge it. O eloquent, just, and mighty death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none...world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretehed greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with...
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Discourse delivered on the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of the ...

Gouverneur Mather Smith - 1870 - 82 pages
...great enemy death will finally gain the mastery. Sir Walter Raleigh has thus apostrophized it : — " O, eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness,...
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A medley of notables: what they said and what others said of them, by G.F.S.

Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 pages
...acknowledge it. Oh eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all...hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawne together all the farre-fetched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and...
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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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