| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 586 páginas
...lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J 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... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 páginas
...lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J 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... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1658 - 602 páginas
...up all. I There is no antidoteagainst the opium of time, which temporally eOuiuiliifeth all Hungs : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...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... | |
| 1848 - 708 páginas
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally coneidereth all things, Our fathers find their graves in our short...memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in oar survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 páginas
...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...may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...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,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some tr.-es stand, and old families... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1855 - 268 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stoues tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
| 1863 - 458 páginas
...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... | |
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