Meaning of mausolæan | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of mausolean.

alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“Bookes are not onely Titles on their Authors Monuments, but Epitaphs preserving their memories, be they good, or bad, beyond short lived pyramids, or mausolæan piles of stone.”

“Adrian ſlights Triumphal glory, / In the Grave founds his prime ſtory, / Before all pomp he doth prefer / His Mauſolæan Sepulcher.”

“The Mauſolæan Tomb at Halicarnaſſus in Caria.”

“Now to the Pomp of Sorrow turn your Eyes, / And see the Mausolæan Structure riſe: / A Fabrick towring with ſuch vaſt extent, / It ſeems a Mountain, not a Monument.”

“A Mausolæan Pile erected high, / Threatning the Temple’s Roof, as That the Sky; / With Starry Lamps and Banners blazing round, / In all the Pageantry of Death is crown’d.”

“Whereas your personal actions, which are great and brave, carry your honor round the universe; inscribe your names into the register of eternity; and you thereby raise trophies to your memory, which shall out-cast the mausolæan monument.”

“For tho’ Times Teeth Mauſolæan Monuments deface, / They’ll never gnaw thy Name which with the Stars has place.”

“At Home we’ll raiſe a Mausolæan Pile, / To drown (Ah! pious Grief!) Britannia’s Iſle.”

“Some have amuſed the dull ſad years of life, / Life ſpent in indolence, and therefore ſad, / With ſchemes of monumental fame, and ſought / By pyramids and mausolæan pomp, / Short-lived themſelves, t’ immortalize their bones.”

“It is not then eulogiums, panegyrick orations, dirges, epitaphs, heralds, mourners, obelisks, obsequies, or mausolæan monuments, so well as their own coins wherein they are effigiated, can eternize princes.”

“The Mausolæan tombe, / The sixteene curious gates in Rome, / Which times preferre, / Both past and present, / Neroe’s Theater, / That in one day was all gilt ore;”

“And let my body want a Sepulchre, if my soule does not more honour that Bodleian Monument, then all the Triumphal Chariots of the living, than the Mausolæan, Mogoll, or Memphian magnificence for the dead, or any other Royall or Imperiall interments.”

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