 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 Sketch Book - Стр. 169авторы: Washington Irving - 1900 - Страниц: 371Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 548
...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. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 556
...There is no 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 we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 438
...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... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 818
...had not 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 372
...There is no 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 we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 374
...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 - 1823 - Страниц: 380
...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."... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Страниц: 668
...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. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - Страниц: 718
...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. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.f Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 548
...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. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.§ Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
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