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" 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 18
1848
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Pilgrim Walks: a Chaplet of Memories

Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1859 - 282 Seiten
...observes, " there is no antidote against the opium of Time, which temporally considereth all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...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...
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Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 388 Seiten
...lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PERE LA CHAISE. Uur fathers find their graves in our short memories, and...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, —...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 Seiten
...a moment. There is no antidote against the opium of tune, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years ;5 generations pass while some trees stand ; and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare...
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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 Seiten
...but a lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PERE 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 —...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 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,...survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.* * Old ones being taken up, and other bodies laid under them. Generations pass while some trees stand,...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 Seiten
...Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.* * Old ones being taken up, and other bodies laid under them. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Grater ; * to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names ; to be studied...
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Band 2

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 Seiten
...intellect: — " There is no antidote against the opium of time which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,...
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Wise Sayings of the Great and Good

Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 Seiten
...Mutability of There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. FASHION. There are people, who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time. Maxims, ccccuv. — ROCHEFOUCAULT....
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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 Seiten
...Hydriotaphia. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries...
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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. Artist's ed

Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 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...
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