 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...impure, quality, the voice being low down in the chest; large volume; short, mostly falling slides. Thus: O eloquent, just, and mighty death! Whom none could...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet! — SIR WALTER RALEIGH. SOLEMNITY... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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...together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, ambition, and cruelty of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, " hicjacet." LETTER... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...Thus: O eloquent, just, and mighty death I Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none huth dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath...greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words, Hie jacft! — SIR WALTER RALEIOH. SOLEMNITY... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Sumner Memorial - 1874 - 320 pages
...just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, them hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hath done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou...together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, * Hie jacelJ" Yes! He covers... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...Edmund Spenser. O 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 stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie and ambition of men, and... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...Irving. The Last Enemy. — 0 eloquent, just, and mighty death ! whom none could advise, thou only hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done...the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 pages
...SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S tribute to Death in his History of The World must be included in our cameos — "O eloquent, just and mighty Death! Whom none could...hath dared, thou hast done; And whom all the world flattered thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched... | |
 | J. S. Whale - 1976 - 204 pages
...that last magnificent sentence of his unfinished History of the World, written there in the Tower : ' O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could...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... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1914 - 276 pages
...pedestrian prison-task, The History of the World, and takes leave of life with a superb gesture : 0 eloquent, just and mighty death ! whom none , could...dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the pride,... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 pages
...extended, elevated assertion is displayed in a famous passage from Raleigh's History of the World: Oh eloquent, just and mighty death! whom none could advise,...far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambitions of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet. It is clear from... | |
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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... 
