There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Reginald Dalton - Sida 64efter John Gibson Lockhart - 1849 - 505 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sidor
...all. There is no antidote against the opium. of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oifr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 sidor
...all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oufr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 sidor
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 sidor
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally consideretb all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while... | |
| 1896 - 818 sidor
...people, if we had not lost faith in the permanency of the work. But time brings involuntary wisdom. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " While I live," promises a lover, with melancholy truthfulness, in... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 sidor
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. « Our fathers,» says Sir Thomas Brown, « find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. » History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy;... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some... | |
| 1826 - 548 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.§ Generations pass while... | |
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