| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth ed to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the monarch...1593, Marlow produced three other dramas, the Jew tr~*es stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,2... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 Seiten
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 Seiten
...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 Seiten
...but a lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PEBE 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, —... | |
| Joseph Cross - 1851 - 366 Seiten
...a monument outlives the name it is seeking to perpetuate. ' 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.' The man who would be immortal must build his own monument, and write for himself an epitaph upon the... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 586 Seiten
...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 Grruter,|| to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 1046 Seiten
...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...§ Generations pass while some trees stand, and old ikiii ilies last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,|| to hope for... | |
| 1848 - 708 Seiten
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally coneidereth all things, Our fathers find their graves in our short...memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in oar survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
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