 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 Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 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... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 sidor
...Mutability of 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 sidor
...Hydriotaphia. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 sidor
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 474 sidor
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." «' Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " 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... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 sidor
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " 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... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 sidor
...: — ' ' 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... | |
 | 1872 - 394 sidor
...on the stone that has suffered the least How melancholy is all this, and what a lesson it teaches! Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried by our survivors. How true it is, as Cowper says : " - We build with what we deem eternal... | |
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