 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 ページ
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right lined circle * must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...survivors. ,' Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.f Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 244 ページ
...recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. ii 2 PERE LA CHAISE. PERE LA CHAISE. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...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 as though they had not been, to... | |
 | 1836 - 694 ページ
...present themselves the relics of another race, for the speculations of the curious and the instruction of all. " There is no antidote against the opium of time,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | 1836 - 640 ページ
...other splendid passages, which must give the reader an exalted idea of Browne's style and intellect:— 'There is no antidote against the opium of time which...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter—to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 ページ
...splendid passages, which must give the reader an exalted idea of Browne's style and intellect : — " There is no antidote against the opium of time which...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 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... | |
 | John Cole - 1837 - 326 ページ
...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,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " Thus," as Washington Irving feelingly expresses it, "man passes away; his name perishes from record... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 ページ
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, arid old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1840 - 56 ページ
...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,...survivors.— Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.—To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 ページ
...moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle(163) must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth (162) This extraordinary fancy appears at times to have been cherished even by Lord Bacon, who now... | |
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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. 
