 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 trang
...before been so well expressed, was written by Franklin when he was about twenty-three years of age: " The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding), Lies here, food for worms. But the... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 560 trang
...readers, I imagine, are already well acquainted with the following epitaph which he wrote for himself : The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here food for worms ; Yet the... | |
 | 1854 - 666 trang
...mehrere Jahre vor seinem Tode vertagst hat und die wir im Original mitzntheilen uns erlauben. Sie lautet: The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here food for worms ; Tet the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 trang
...here the epitaph which he wrote for himself, before he was twenty-one years old. It is as follows: "THE BODY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms ; But the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 trang
...wrote in his days of youth, at the age of twenty-three, was not placed over his grave in Philadelphia. The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And atript of its lettering and gilding,) Lie* here, food for worms. Yet the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 trang
...wrote in his days of youth, at the ago ot' twenty-three, was not placed over his grave in Philadelphia. The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its content-) torn out, And stript of it« lettering nml gilding,) Lies höre, food for worms. Yet... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 trang
...taste to put the quaint composition on the slab that covers his grave. How ridiculous it would look! "The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER, Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding, Lies here food for worms. Bnt the... | |
 | 1855 - 512 trang
...following epitaph on himself was written by Doctor Franklin many years previously to his death : — The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and g.lding, lies here, food for worms. Yet the... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - 1856 - 192 trang
...similarity between the above and the following (written subsequently) which has been so justly admired. " The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding, lies here, food for worms, yet the work... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 trang
...himself — written many years before his death, which took place April 17th, 1790, aged 84 years: — " The Body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, Like the cover of an old Book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding Lies here, food for worms ; Yet the... | |
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THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in... 
