...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally ccnsidereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short...memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our p survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and...

...will in turn be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. ,,0ur fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown68, ,,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...

...will, in turn, be 355 supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, "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...

...be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, •' find sheir graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." HisS tory fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded wilh doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders...

...popularity ! How true are the words of Sir Thomas Browne, — " There is no antidote against the opinions of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in * Seo Homilist, Vol. xzjtviii, Page 152. TOL. XLVI. NO 1. D our short memories, and sadly tell how...

...lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circlet 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...

...stone that has suffered the least * * * How melancholy is all this, and what a lesson it teaches * * * Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried by our survivors. How true it is, as Cowper says: " 'We build with what we deem eternal brass— A...

...and 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...

...fail. To quote one of Borges's favorite books. Sir Thomas Browne's Hydrothapla, Urne-Buriall (l658): "There is no antidote against the Opium of time, which temporally considereth all things." This is not. as has been said, because Borges's God plays the same trick on the poet that the poet...

...the wind and folly, Nimrod lost in Orion, Osiris in the Dog-star . . . The invisible sun within us. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. And though Elias prophesies the world may last but six thousand years, still the grain springs back:...