 | James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 pages
...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,...survivors. — Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To be content, that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether they... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - Inheritance and succession - 1842 - 346 pages
...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 - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 70 pages
...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 - 490 pages
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considereth all 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... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1847 - 690 pages
...conclude to shut up all. There is no Antidote against the Opinion of Time, which, temporally considereth all things; Our Fathers find their Graves in our short...oaks. To be read by bare Inscriptions like many in <. niter, to hope for Eternity by ./Enigmatical Epithetes, or first Letters of our names to be studied... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Grater, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. OUT ing-jealous of his liberty. Rom. I would I were thy...thee with much cherishing. Good-night, good-night : hist not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,2 to hope for eternity by... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 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... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...even in Great Britain, after a lapse of three thousand years. CHAP. XI. THE HEBREW COMMONWEALTH. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he huried in our survivors. The Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time has spared, avarice now consumeth... | |
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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. 
