“ Rome living was the world’s sole ornament; And dead is now the world’s sole monument...... With her own weight down pressed now she lies, And by her heaps her hugeness testifies. ”
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). copy citation
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
|---|---|
| Source | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |
| Topic | press lie |
| Date | 1849 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4232/4232-h/4232-h.htm |
Context
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but to-day, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “ Judæa Capta ” with a woman mourning under a palm-tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.
Rome living was the world’s sole ornament; And dead is now the world’s sole monument...... With her own weight down pressed now she lies, And by her heaps her hugeness testifies. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “ A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out. ”” source
Rome living was the world’s sole ornament; And dead is now the world’s sole monument...... With her own weight down pressed now she lies, And by her heaps her hugeness testifies. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “ A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out. ”” source
