Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J must conclude and 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... Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin - Page 43by sir Thomas Browne - 1852Full view - About this book
| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...even in Great Britain, after a lapse of three thousand years. CHAP. XI. THE HEBREW COMMONWEALTH. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he huried in our survivors. The Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time has spared, avarice now consumeth... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodiex, and the mortal right-lined circle' nfined to a place ; but where tr~*es stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,2... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 pages
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...but a lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PEBE 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, —... | |
| Joseph Cross - 1851 - 366 pages
...a monument outlives the name it is seeking to perpetuate. ' 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.' The man who would be immortal must build his own monument, and write for himself an epitaph upon the... | |
| 1848 - 708 pages
...Circles and right lines," says he, " limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally coneidereth all things, Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...splendid passages, which must give the reader an exalted idea of Browne's style and intellect : — " There is no antidote against the opium of time which...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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