 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 ページ
...pmt a moment. Circles and right line« limit and close all bodies and the mortal right-lined circle1 must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considérelo all thing«. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 ページ
...Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude nnd shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considercth nil things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 268 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 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 against the opium of time, which temporally considercth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how... | |
 | 1863 - 458 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 ページ
...consideration of that duration, which maketh pyramids pillars of snow, and all that's past a moment. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...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 bare... | |
 | Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1859 - 282 ページ
...to Westminster or S. Paul's. However, as the same writer, with quaint and racy wisdom, observes, " there is no antidote against the opium of Time, which...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave stones tell truth scarce forty years ; generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 388 ページ
...lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PERE LA CHAISE. Uur 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 as though they had not been, —... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 ページ
...pyramids pillars of snow, and all that's past a moment. There is no antidote against the opium of tune, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years ;5 generations pass while some trees stand ; and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 ページ
...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,...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 —... | |
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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. 
