 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.  Washington Irving's Sketch Book - Side 191af Washington Irving - 1906 - 428 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sider
...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sider
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 438 sider
...volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten. The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out uf our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted...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."... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 sider
...is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten. The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted...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."... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 sider
...is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten. The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted...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."... | |
 | 1896 - 818 sider
...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 - 372 sider
...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 - 374 sider
...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 - 380 sider
...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."... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 sider
...is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten. The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted...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.... | |
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