 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
 | 1836 - 694 sidor
...of 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. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals... | |
 | 1836 - 640 sidor
...intellect:— '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'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter—to hope for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 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... | |
 | John Cole - 1837 - 326 sidor
...filled up. To this sarcophagus, how applicable and humiliating are the thoughts of Sir Thomas Brown : " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " Thus," as Washington Irving feelingly expresses it, "man passes... | |
 | 400 sidor
...mo nument. She died November die fifth, AI). 18 — aged twenty-seven years. ' Our fathers find thei graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we shall be buried in our survivors. Let me be found in the register of God not in the recori of man.' " In one of the... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1840 - 56 sidor
...names of those recorded upon them f .—Their memorial is perished with them e . e Exodus ii. 22. 1 "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.—To be content that... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 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 (162) This extraordinary fancy appears at times... | |
 | 1841 - 272 sidor
...yourselves are the experiment, it is as if a man should dissect his own body, and read the anatomy lecture. OUR fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. SIR THOMAS BROWN. LET us carry into the world neither curiosity nor... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - 1842 - 346 sidor
...without any distinction to the merit of perpetuity. There is no antidote against the opium of Time ! Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in those of our survivors. Even our grave stones tell truth scarcely forty years, —... | |
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