 | Desiderius Erasmus - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1877 - 554 pages
...temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 pages
...temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished f It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...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...life and truth. ,' But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the (vrong of time, nnd capable of perpetual renovation.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 622 pages
...statua, as in his Advancement of Learning: "It is not possible to have the true pictures or staluas of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." The measure evidently requires that it be a word of three syllables here, as also in III. ii. 192.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 616 pages
...statua, as in his Advancement of Learning: "It is not possible to have the true pictures or staluas of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." The measure evidently requires that it be a word of three syllables here, as also in III. ii. 192.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...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...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 pages
...temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished?" — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...Learning (1603-5). " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ciesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 444 pages
...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, Csesar, no, nor of the kings, or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last;... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
...temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished?" — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years, for the originals cannot last,... | |
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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 pictures or statues of Cyrus,... 
