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The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 2 0 Browse Search
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The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Appendix I: General Dearborn's Report. (search)
rah was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak, and the valiant men of Jabesh-gilead removed the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Bethshon and buried them under a tree. Moses was buried in a valley in the land of Moab; Joseph, in a parcel of ground in Shechem; Eleazer, the son of Aaron, in a hill that pertained to Phinehas; and Manassah, with Amon in the garden of Uzza. The planting of rose-trees upon graves is an ancient custom: Anacreon says that it protects the dead ; and Propertius indicates the usage of burying amidst roses. Plato sanctioned the planting of trees over sepulchres, and the tomb of Ariadne was in the Arethusian Groves of Crete. The Catacombs of Thebes were excavated in the gorges of forest-clad hills, on the opposite bank of the Nile; and those of Memphis were beyond the lake Acherusia, from which the Grecian mythologists derived their fabulous accounts of the Elysian Fields. There it was supposed the souls of the virtuous and illustrious retired
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
out Shall and Will, from the Puritan times down. At any rate, we are all right in New England. I never knew a person among us—who was born here, or who was bred in our schools— to make a mistake in the use of these two idiomatic auxiliaries. Indeed, I do not think I hear one once a year, and it is so offensive to me, that I am sure a slight deviation would not escape my notice. Boston, September 14, 1858 Please thank kind Lady Head for transcribing the version of the last elegy of Propertius. Translation by Sir E. Head. It is not very close, yet remarkably phrased, —if I may use such a word,—so as to preserve the air and tone of the original. But I do not know how it is that all the expressions of feeling about death by the ancients—even this one, which is perhaps the best except the Alcestis—are so unsatisfactory. They seem to come out of dismal hollows in the earth, and to be without even that warmth of merely human feeling, which they might surely have without th