 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 Methodist Quarterly Review - Էջ 3051864Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 էջ
...antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oufr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how...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 էջ
...antidote against the opium. of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oifr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 394 էջ
...the passionate desire of fame, from the slender relics which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we Satients, or Achilles' horses in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 էջ
...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 - 1820 - 438 էջ
...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 Southern - 1820 - 402 էջ
...the passionate desire of fame, from the slender relics which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first .letters of our names ; to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 էջ
...antidote against the opium of time, which temporally consideretb all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how...Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | 1896 - 818 էջ
...lost faith in the permanency of the work. But time brings involuntary wisdom. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and 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... | |
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