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. Notices of the Proceedings - Page 574by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896Full view - About this book
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...all. There is no antidote against the 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 survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...all. There is no antidote against the 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 survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...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 - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally consideretb all things ; our fathers find their graves in our...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... | |
| North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...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 - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried ill our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
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