 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 sidor
...but a lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PERE LA CHAISE Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be... | |
 | 1872 - 588 sidor
...says the eloquent Sir Thomas Brown, •' I count the world not as an inn but as aa hospital — where our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how soon we shall be buried with our survivors." How comfortable a thing it is then to cherish and remember... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1872 - 496 sidor
...honorable to the survivors than it is respectful to the dead. "Our fathers," says an eloquent old writer, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." It is a good help to these " short memories," and a more than pardonable... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 sidor
...film and gossamer of dreams, and weave them into the coarser warp of our existence ? PERE LA CHAISE. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories., and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 sidor
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." 370 History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opinm of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us now we may bo buried iu our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally ccnsidereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our p survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 sidor
...Shaftesbury. TIME. 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 sidor
...will, in turn, be 355 supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, "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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