 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,...  An Anthology of English Prose: (1332 to 1740) - Page 127by Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1885 - 590 pages
...day administered, does more than all the skill of the physician-moralists. Sir Thomas Browne says : "Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are tables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 pages
...the following passage, with its subdued pathos and stately eloquence, is admirably impressive :— " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction have but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pages
...our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction have but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To creep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall like... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pages
...of expectation. ' Darkness and light divide the coarse of time, and oblivion shares with memory • great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the •airiest strokes of aflliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endiircth no Mtremities, and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...that shall live. The night of time far surpasselh the day, and who knows when was the equinox? . . . tendants: ' Be kind and courteous lo this gentleman. Hop in bis walks, and ga i great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1891 - 480 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sensé endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroys us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables....callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow npon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to corne, and forgetful... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...•ind oblivion shares with memory a great part • ven of our living beings; we slightly remember iur ll above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, I'ndureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afllictions... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...it self, bids us hope no long duration : Diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest streaks of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 330 pages
...old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.2 Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon * According to the custom of the Jews, who place a lighted wax-candle in a pot of ashes by the corpse.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 pages
...grows old itself bids us hope no long duration : diuturuity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember oar felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth... | |
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