 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pagina’s
...vices. * * * * 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...be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pagina’s
...vices. * * * * 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...opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oufr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pagina’s
...vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-l,ined- circle* must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...opium. of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oifr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pagina’s
...on Urnbanal, affords passages of splendid eloquence that cannot easily bo equaled, ím eiample— " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...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 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pagina’s
...moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle, nnst conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against...be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.... | |
 | 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
...moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle, nnst conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how... | |
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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. 
