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" Atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never danipt with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of their vainglories, who acting early, and before the probable meridian... "
Sir Thomas Browne - Page 119
by Sir Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 214 pages
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...encouragement for ambition ; and finding no Atropos 2 unto the immortality of their names, were never damped m the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd...stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; 5 3 of time, have by this time found great accomplishment of their designs whereby the ancient heroes...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...encouragement for ambition ; and finding no Atropos2 unto the immortality of their names, were never damped at loses, the night that wins ; And time remember'd...And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom 6 of time, have by this time found great accomplishment of their designs, whereby the ancient heroes...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - 1920 - 620 pages
...encouragement for ambition ; and, finding no atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never damped with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions...their designs, whereby the ancient heroes have already out -lasted their monuments and mechanical preservations. But in this latter scene of time, we cannot...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...encouragement for ambition, and, finding no Atropos unto the immortality of their Names, were never dampt an whose critical talents and transcendent judgment...Sneer; my friend Puff only talks to you in the style designes, whereby the ancient Heroes have already out-lasted their Monuments, and Mechanical! preservations....
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...encouragement for ambition ; and finding no Átropos2 unto the immortality of their names, were never damped y, We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the white,...then come back down. Singing, "There dwells a lov'd meridian3 of time, have by this time found great accomplishment of their designs, whereby the ancient...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pages
...encouragement for ambition, and, finding no Atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never dampt with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions...in the attempts of their vain-glories, who acting 1 The puzzling questions of Tiberius unto Qrammariana. — Mared. Donatus in Suet. * KAura fSvta. venpav....
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Style in composition

Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 pages
...encouragement for ambition ; and were never damped with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambition had the advantage of ours in the attempts of their...mechanical preservations. But in this latter scene of time, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated...
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1927 - 212 pages
...ambition, and rinding no Atrofos unto the immortality of their Names, were never dampt with the neceffity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage...of ours, in the attempts of their vain-glories, who afting early, and before the probable Meridian of time, have by this time found great accom73 plilhment...
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1927 - 240 pages
...ambition, and finding no Atropos unto the immortality of their Names, were never dampt with the neceffity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of theit vain-glories, who afting early, and before the probable Meridian of time, have by this time found...
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...Thomas Browne, encompassing in a pair of sentences the length and breadth of man's history:8 Even the old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts...Heroes have already out-lasted their Monuments, and Mechanicall preservations. But in this latter Scene of time we cannot expect such Mummies unto our...
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