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
| James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 sidor
...forgotten, as do the names of those, recorded upon them. — Their memorial is perished with them "•. " 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... | |
| William Twopeny, John Henry Parker - 1840 - 70 sidor
...recorded upon themf.— Their memorial is perislied with them*. '• • • • e Exodus ii. 22. f "Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he buried in our survivors.— Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To he content that... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily 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... | |
| East India college - 1845 - 620 sidor
...be peopled by strangers, and we shall be forgotten. " Oar fathers"* says a great English writer, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." And this in a rather different sense is applicable to us, — we soon... | |
| Robert Southey - 1847 - 690 sidor
...up all. There is no Antidote against the Opinion 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... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 some... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sidor
...up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. OUT ing-jealous of his liberty. Rom. I would I were thy bird. Jul. Sweet, fo may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while... | |
| 1848 - 738 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all tilings. 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... | |
| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 sidor
...even in Great Britain, after a lapse of three thousand years. CHAP. XI. THE HEBREW COMMONWEALTH. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he huried in our survivors. The Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time has spared, avarice now... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 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;... | |
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