 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded departed persons ; who left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but [20 look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded Enthusiasts and first Missionaries are wont, with...imperfect utterance, amid much frothy rant ; yet as histdry of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but [20 look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...Irvlng's In the Sketch Book, on the same theme. he was born upon one day and died upon another: the wholo history of his life being comprehended in those two...whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons, who had left no other memorial of them but that they were born and that they died.... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 576 pages
...tombstones and inseriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was...whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons who had left no other memorial of them but that they were born and that they died.... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - Ocean in literature, English - 1921 - 444 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons, who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 582 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that 1 met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was born upon one day and died upoi; another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those tw> circumstances that are... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Literature - 1923 - 594 pages
...in the churchyard. . .amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions. . .Most of these recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another. Irving. 5. STATEMENTS REQUIRING JUSTIFICATION, EXPLANATION, OR SUPPORT These are cases in which the... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded de, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,...hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing departed persons; who left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.... | |
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... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that... 
