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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. "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ... - Seite 298
von William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 Seiten
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Band 1

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 Seiten
...shiver, Or wal*'h the loose shores crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river. " tell us how we may \K buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been,...
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The Divine Comedy, Band 3

Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 Seiten
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to...
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The Divine Comedy, Band 3

Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 Seiten
...says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell u« how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to...
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Outre Mer. Driftwood

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 Seiten
...but a lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. 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, —...
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Occasional Addresses: And the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the Rebellion

John Pendleton Kennedy - 1872 - 498 Seiten
...honorable to the survivors than it is respectful to the dead. "Our fathers," says an eloquent old writer, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." It is a good help to these " short memories," and a more than pardonable vanity, to keep recollection...
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In Memoriam: Benjamin Ogle Tayloe

1872 - 394 Seiten
...on the stone that has suffered the least How melancholy is all this, and what a lesson it teaches! Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried by our survivors. How true it is, as Cowper says : " - We build with what we deem eternal brass—...
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The Mystic Star, Bände 16-17

1872 - 588 Seiten
...says the eloquent Sir Thomas Brown, •' I count the world not as an inn but as aa hospital — where our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how soon we shall be buried with our survivors." How comfortable a thing it is then to cherish and remember...
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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 866 Seiten
...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...
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Complete manual of analysis and paraphrasing, by W. Davidson and J.C. Alcock

William Davidson (B.A.) - 1877 - 240 Seiten
...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...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 598 Seiten
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considercth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short...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...
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