...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...

...greatest affection. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XXIII. THOMAS FULLER. FAMILIES. Mutability of 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...

...Medici (The Religion of a Physician) and a Treatise on Vulgar Errors, OK OBLIVION. From Hydriotaphia. 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...

...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...

...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." «' Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " find their graves in our short memories, and 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...

...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " find their graves in our short memories, and 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...

...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...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...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. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " find their graves in our short memories, and 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...

...other masterpieces of English prose literature. He sets forth the uselessness of monuments : — ' ' 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...