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. Religio medici - 343 ページSir Thomas Browne 著 - 1878 - 440 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| 1831 - 602 ページ
...passages of splendid eloquence that cannot easily bo equaled, ím eiample— " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our §hort memories, and sadly tell us how »e пит be buried in our survivors'. To be re»d by bare... | |
| 1821 - 438 ページ
...supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their craves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be burled in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 ページ
...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 ; the inscription moulders... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 ページ
...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 ; the inscription moulders... | |
| 1896 - 818 ページ
...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,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " While I live," promises a lover, with melancholy truthfulness, in a Roman epitaph quoted by Mr. Pater... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 ページ
...against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried ill our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 380 ページ
...top of it, and underneath these words in gilt capitals, seemingly but recently carved there : — " OUR FATHERS FIND THEIR GRAVES IN OUR SHORT MEMORIES, AND SADLY TELL US HOW WE SHALL BE BURIED IN OUR SURVIVORS. L.ET ME BE FOUND IN THE REGISTER OF GOD, NOT IN THE RECORD OF MAN."... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 ページ
...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; the inscription moulders... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 ページ
...all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth...our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.f Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be * The... | |
| 1830 - 550 ページ
...passages of splendid eloquence that cannot easily be equalled. For example — " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare in4 scriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,... | |
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