 Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. ' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside — The...  Quarterly Journal of Science: 1870 - Page 3461870Full view - About this book
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1889 - 636 pages
...creed of palaeocosmic man is that summed up by Lyell in his quotation of the lines, — " Bring here the last gifts, and with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased and yet may pleaseBe buried with the dead." One remark of the Belgian geologists must be noticed here. The deposits... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Amazons - 1893 - 332 pages
...and dash to them cowries and cloths to decorate the last home. " Here bring the last sad gifts — with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and still may please Be buried with the dead." When a human sacrifice is made the head is placed upon the... | |
 | Science - 1875 - 800 pages
...Antiquity of Man," quotes as pertinent the well-known lines from Schiller's " Nadowessian DeathSong : " '' Here bring the last gifts — and with these The last...all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with tbe dead. " Beneath hia head the hatchet hide That he so stoutly swung : And place the bear's fat haunch... | |
 | James Campbell - Balmerino (Scotland). - 1899 - 822 pages
...and vessels containing food and drink. The custom is thus referred to by the poet — ' Here brinjj the last gifts, and with these The last lament be said ; Let nil that pleased and still may please Be buried with the dead.' While many of the articles which have... | |
 | John Fletcher Horne - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1900 - 400 pages
...circumstances the memory of which was cherished. " Here bring the last gifts, and with these The last lament he said — Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead." — EB LYTTON. In the character of their productions we see reflected the nature and conditions of... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 480 pages
...this belief probably developed finally into some dim conception of a future spiritual life : — " Here bring the last gifts and with these The last...hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the boar's fat haunch beside ; The journey hence is long." Fictile vessels, containing a supply of food... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 490 pages
...these The last lament be s;iid, Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Ho buried with the deud. Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the boar's fat hanneh beside ; The journey hence is long." Fictile vessels, containing a supply of food... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 466 pages
...and this belief probably developed finally into some dim conception of a future spiritual life :— " Here bring the last gifts and with these The last lament be s;iid, Let all tliat pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. Beneath his head the hatchet... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Greece - 1903 - 848 pages
...were included among the objects which the deceased person had used or loved in his lifetime : — . Here bring the last gifts ! and with these The last...pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. Vases were placed in the dead man's grave to solace him in the under-world : — . " It seems to have... | |
 | David Heagle - Future life - 1920 - 232 pages
...suffering and loss was endured. In a descriptive poem Schiller celebrates one of these burial customs : Here bring the last gifts! and with these The last...long. And let the knife new sharpened be That on the battle day Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman's scalp away. The paints that... | |
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