| Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 páginas
...lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle(163) must conclude and shut up all. 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 (162) This extraordinary fancy appears at times to have been cherished even... | |
| 1841 - 272 páginas
...yourselves are the experiment, it is as if a man should dissect his own body, and read the anatomy lecture. OUR fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. SIR THOMAS BROWN. LET us carry into the world neither curiosity nor indiscretion. Curiosity is the... | |
| James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 páginas
...forgotten, as do the names of those, recorded upon them. — Their memorial is perished with them "•. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. — Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To be content, that times to come should only know... | |
| Henry Kent Staple Causton - 1842 - 346 páginas
...without any distinction to the merit of perpetuity. There is no antidote against the opium of Time ! Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in those of our survivors. Even our grave stones tell truth scarcely forty years, — generations •... | |
| William Twopeny, John Henry Parker - 1840 - 70 páginas
...recorded upon themf.— Their memorial is perislied with them*. '• • • • e Exodus ii. 22. f "Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he buried in our survivors.— Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To he content that times... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 páginas
...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...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... | |
| East India college - 1845 - 620 páginas
...be peopled by strangers, and we shall be forgotten. " Oar fathers"* says a great English writer, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." And this in a rather different sense is applicable to us, — we soon forget our predecessors, and... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1847 - 690 páginas
...the mortal right lined circle, must conclude to shut up all. There is no Antidote against the Opinion of Time, which, temporally considereth all things;...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...lines limit and close all bodie*, and the mortal right-lined circle' must conclude and shut up all. ike a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, S OUT fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our... | |
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