 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
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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 Gruterf, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oufr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruterf, to hope for eternity by (enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...all. There is no antidote against the opium. of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oifr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and...last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, iike many in Gruterf, to hope for eternity by ^enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names,... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their craves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be burled in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. " 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 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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 G niter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...people, if we had not lost faith in the permanency of the work. But time brings involuntary wisdom. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " While I live," promises a lover, with melancholy truthfulness, in a Roman epitaph quoted by Mr. Pater... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried ill our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - College stories - 1823 - 380 pages
...top of it, and underneath these words in gilt capitals, seemingly but recently carved there : — " OUR FATHERS FIND THEIR GRAVES IN OUR SHORT MEMORIES, AND SADLY TELL US HOW WE SHALL BE BURIED IN OUR SURVIVORS. L.ET ME BE FOUND IN THE REGISTER OF GOD, NOT IN THE RECORD OF MAN."... | |
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