 I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets. I observed indeed that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps...  On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening - Página 119por Samuel Felton - 1830 - 221 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons* whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim', or in the bosom of the ocean\ I know that entertainments of this' nature are apt to raise dark* and dismal' thoughts in timorous* minds,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 páginas
...uninhabited '•"monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons, whose bodies were, perhaps, buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. 4. I know, that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the aeran. I could not but be very much delighted with several modern epitaphs, which are written with... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom...as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt tq conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom...thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - 1867 - 154 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or In the bosom...could not but be very much delighted with several modem epitaphs, which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom...thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 páginas
...which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. , As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea ofb the ignorance or politeness of a nation, from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions,... | |
 | John Ramsay - 1871 - 414 páginas
...his tomb, and thus record a tribute of veneration for his memory. In a subsequent sentence he says, " As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation," etc. Here the word " politeness," as opposed to " ignorance," means an acquaintance with elegant literature... | |
 | 1871 - 630 páginas
...these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were jierhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean." — «S/t'cídíor. INTERMENT (in and terra, the earth) is a somewhat politer word for the same thing,... | |
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