George Sewell Quote

Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.

The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh. [In Five Acts and in Verse.] (ed. 1719)