Monument. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Monument


I have completed a monument more lasting than brass, and more sublime than the regal elevation of pyramids, which neither the wasting shower, the unavailing north-wind, nor an innumerable succession of years, and the flight of seasons, shall be able to demolish. Horace.—Book III. Ode 30, Lines 1–5.	1
I have now completed a work which neither the anger of Jove, nor fire, nor steel, nor consuming time, will be able to destroy! Ovid.—Meta. Book XV. Line 873.	2
It deserves with characters of brass A forted residence, ’gainst the tooth of time, And rasure of oblivion. Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1. (The Duke to Angelo.)	3
I made my life my monument. Ben Jonson.—On Sir Charles Cavendish.	4
Like the Monument. Dr. Johnson.—His answer on being asked how he felt upon the ill success of his tragedy “Irene.” (Croker’s Boswell, Page 61.)	5
When old Time shall lead him to his end, Goodness and he fill up one monument. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act II. Scene 1.	6
If you seek for his monument, look around, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. Robert Mylne.—Epitaph on Sir Christopher Wren, in St. Paul’s Cathedral.	7
Wouldst thou behold his monument? look around! Rogers.—Italy (Florence), Page 103, Ed. 1830.	8