 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.  The British Quarterly Review - Pagina 168geredigeerd door - 1857Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1821 - 438 pagina’s
...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 - 1820 - 438 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 818 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...conclude and 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...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 pagina’s
...equalled. For example — " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short...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,... | |
 | 1831 - 370 pagina’s
...conclude and 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 survi* 0, the character of death. vors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.* Generations pass... | |
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