 | 1861 - 636 ページ
...humor : — " 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 temporarily considereth all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly... | |
 | 1861 - 634 ページ
...humor : — " 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 temporarily considereth all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly... | |
 | 1861 - 634 ページ
...circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considereth all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly itell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years ; generations... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 ページ
...Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must ©> th« ' conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against...survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.* * Old ones being taken up, and other bodies laid under them. Generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 ページ
...the mortal right-lined circle must ©> the conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote of death, against the opium of time, which temporally considereth...survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.* * Old ones being taken up, and other bodies laid under them. Generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 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 - 1865 - 518 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 598 ページ
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all lx)dies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considcreth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 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, —... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1872 - 496 ページ
...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 vanity, to keep recollection... | |
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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. 
