| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...* * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...* * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against...opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oufr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...* * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-l,ined- circle* must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against...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... | |
| 1831 - 602 páginas
...on Urnbanal, affords passages of splendid eloquence that cannot easily bo equaled, ím eiample— " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our §hort memories, and sadly tell us how »e пит be buried in our survivors'. To be re»d by bare... | |
| 1821 - 438 páginas
...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 - 1822 - 424 páginas
...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 - 1820 - 438 páginas
...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 - 1821 - 380 páginas
...moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle, nnst conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions... | |
| 1896 - 818 páginas
...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 - 1821 - 372 páginas
...moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle, nrist conclude and shut up all. 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... | |
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