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 - Seite 181848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 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... | |
| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 Seiten
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. s Semele ; More lovely than the monarch of the sky...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
...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,...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... | |
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