Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities,... The Retrospective Review - Página 931820Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 páginas
...old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding... | |
| Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 páginas
...grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall off like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,... | |
| 1892 - 480 páginas
...urn burial are in snatches, proverbs, or shall I not rather call them texts ? Here are a few : — " We slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest...extremities, and sorrows destroy us or' themselves." " Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 518 páginas
...Browne allows himself this ugly homaoteleuton. Darkness | and light divide | the course | of time,1 and oblivion shares | with memory, | a great part | even | of our living | beings ; we slightly | remembered | our felicities, | and the smartest | strokes of affliction | leave but short | smart... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 páginas
...oblivion shares | with memory, | a great part | even | of our living | beings ; we slightly | remembered | our felicities, | and the smartest | strokes of affliction | leave but short | smart | upon us. I Sense | endureth | no | extremities, | and sorrows | destroy us j or themselves. To weep | into stones... | |
| John Cowper Powys - 1915 - 750 páginas
...Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon without the favour of the everlasting register. . . . Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. To weep into Stones are fables.'" He pronounced these last words with a slow and emphatic intonation.... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 páginas
...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 páginas
...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. m the grass ! 1 die ! I faint ! I fail ! Let thy love...Where it will break at last. THE CLOUD I bring fresh Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,... | |
| 1916 - 792 páginas
...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. in their art, Hyder All and his more ferocious son,...that, when the British armies traversed, as they did, endurcth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 páginas
...grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration: diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and [220 the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities,... | |
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