 Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities,...  The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Sida 158redigerad av - 1840Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 sidor
...deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." How stupendous is the following moralizing on human afflictions,...are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | 1820 - 394 sidor
...desire merely to be known as having been. " Who," he demands, " cares to submit like Hippocrates's How stupendous is the following moralizing on human afflictions,...are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 sidor
...grows old itself, bids, us hope no long duration: diuturnity is a dream and f?lly of expectation, " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is nounhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 sidor
...grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration: diuturuity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 sidor
...misfortunes. But it is amongst the proudest prerogatives of Time, that lie vanquishes grief itself. " Darkness and light divide the course of time ; and...felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction have but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremi ties, and sorrows destroy us, or themselves.... | |
 | 1821 - 770 sidor
...misfortunes. But it is amongst the proudest prerogatives of Time, that he vanquishes grief itself. " Darkness and light divide the course of time; and...felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction have but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrow destroy us, or themselves.... | |
 | 1821 - 772 sidor
...misfortunes. But it is amongst the proudest prerogatives of Time, that he vanquishes grief itself. " Darkness and light divide the course of time ; and...felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction have but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremi ties, and sorrows destroy us, or themselves.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sidor
...grows old itself, bids us "hope no long duration : diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | 1826 - 548 sidor
...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration ; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...destroy us, or themselves. To weep into stones are fafbles. Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding... | |
 | 1826 - 548 sidor
...before we lie down * Cuperem notum esse quod sim, non opto ut sciatur qualis aim. Card" in vita propria. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...memory, a great part even of our living beings. We sl ; ghtly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon... | |
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