...diuturnity unto his reliques, or might not gladly say, TIBULI.OS. S*c eff° componi versus in ossa velim? Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. 1 In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means...

...as the hills that bear them ; and of barrow and monolith alike it may be said in great words that " Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments." The huge Bair Down Man, visible for many miles against the sky line, always woke a pleasant interest...

...the temples themselves — are a product of that patronage. "Time," Sir Thomas Browne has observed, "which antiquates antiquities and hath an art to make...all things hath yet spared these minor monuments." Archeology has advanced considerably since the 17th century and we now know that time has indeed spared...

...Vol. I, p. 389. NOTICE OF THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM, SALISBURY, ENGLAND. OPENED SEPTEMBER THE 5TH, 1867. " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments." — Sir THOMAS BROWNE. The Blackmore Museum was founded at Salisbury, by Mr. William Blackmore, of...

...THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM, SALISBURY, ENGLAND. OPENED SEPTEMBER THE 5TH, 1867. ' Time, which antiquatts antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments."— Sir THOMAS BROWNE. The Blackmore Museum was founded at Salisbury, by Mr. William Blackmore, of Liverpool...

...but ' Plutarch's Lives ' remain. Tacitus' ' Life of Agricola ' has outlasted Agricola's mausoleum. ' Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.' But biographical effort that shall seek to satisfy a nation's commemorative instinct must be specially...

...1986 941.08! 85-19492 ISBN 0 521 30635 3 hardback ISBN 0 521 53050 4 paperback To my mother and father Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor Monuments Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia Contents Acknowledgements page ix Abbreviations x 1 Introduction 1 2 Community...

...consideration of temporality especially as he ponders the bones and other relics he finds in the urns: "Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art...their continuation and obscurity their protection" (Hydriotaphia 306). Not only is the method traditionally employed to resolve at least some of the questions...

...text: reality leaves its mark. Time does not efface history. Rather, as Sir Thomas Browne remarks: 'Time, which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor Monuments'. 36 The minor monuments which Time spares have the form we have described. This conclusion has implications...

...contemplation of material relics, and remains memorable by way of a continuing association with them. 'Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments', wrote Browne of his captivating Norfolk urns; and Proust gathers durable curiosities into his text...