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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 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 111
1830
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volume 2

George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 848 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...may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters...
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Wise Sayings of the Great and Good

Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...greatest affection. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XXIII. THOMAS FULLER. FAMILIES. Mutability of There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...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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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...Medici (The Religion of a Physician) and a Treatise on Vulgar Errors, OK OBLIVION. From Hydriotaphia. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...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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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. Artist's ed

Washington Irving - 1865 - 520 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...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 474 pages
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." «' Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " 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...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " 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...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 25

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1857 - 598 pages
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considcreth all things : our fathers find their graves in our...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...
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Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1869 - 244 pages
...lines 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...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river." "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " 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...
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Papers from a Parsonage

Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pages
...other masterpieces of English prose literature. He sets forth the uselessness of monuments : — ' ' There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...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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