 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.  The American Whig Review - Page 181848Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...film and gossamer of dreams, and weave them into the coarser warp of our existence ? 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... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.) - 1877 - 240 pages
...Caasar might have stood against the world : now lies he there, and none so poor to do him reverence. 4. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. 5. Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana : he is almost lost that built it. G. To write... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 480 pages
...all. There is no antidote ^ ai against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1878 - 152 pages
...will, in turn, be 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." 370 History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opinm of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us now we may bo buried iu our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...Shaftesbury. TIME. THERE is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. Sir Thomai Browne, H ydriotaphia. TIME. FAST as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts... | |
 | David Thomas - 1880 - 444 pages
...Homilist, Vol. xzjtviii, Page 152. TOL. XLVI. NO 1. D our short memories, and sadly tell how we mny be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks." "Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear, 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...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... | |
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