mausolæan

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.

1654, Richard Whitlock, quotee, “ΖΩΟΤΟΜΙΑ, or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English; briefly anatomizing the Living by the Dead. With an Usefull Detection of the Mountebanks of both Sexes. […] ”, in The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany, […], London: […] John Wilson, published 1830, page 139

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

1673, [Jean Puget,] le Sieur de la Serre, “The Paragraphs, (So comprized in the Emblems) giving subject to the Author’s Discourses following”, in T[homas] Cary, transl., The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. Concerning the Contempt of the World, or the Meditation of Death; of Philip King of Macedon, Saladine, Adrian, and Alexander the Great, London: […] E. T. and R. H. for R. Thrale, stanza III

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.

1693, Nahum Tate, “The Widow”, in The Character of an Accomplish’d Virgin, Wife, and Widow, page 17

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.

1695, N[ahum] Tate, Mausolæum: A Funeral Poem on Our Late Gracious Sovereign Queen Mary, of Blessed Memory, London: […] B. Aylmer, […]. And W. Rogers, […]. And R. Baldwin, […], page 2

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.

1697, John Prince, “The Epistle Dedicatory”, in Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon. […], London: […] Rees and Curtis, […]; Edward Upham, […]; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], published 1810, page xix