...up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which tempor'ally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...survivors. ,' Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.f Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by...

...recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. ii 2 PERE LA CHAISE. PERE LA CHAISE. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to...

...intellect : — " There is no antidote against the opium of time which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,...

...of all. " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...

...intellect:— 'There is no antidote against the opium of time which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter—to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,...

...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...

...filled up. To this sarcophagus, how applicable and humiliating are the thoughts of Sir Thomas Brown : " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " Thus," as Washington Irving feelingly expresses it, "man passes away; his name perishes from record...

...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, arid old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope...

...names of those recorded upon them f .—Their memorial is perished with them e . e Exodus ii. 22. 1 "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...

...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth (162) This extraordinary fancy appears at times to have been cherished even by Lord Bacon, who now...