...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...

...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...

...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. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. jGenerations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. ii 2 PERE LA CHAISE. PERE 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, to...

...and sport our enemies —are tragicall abominations, escaped in burning burials.' The Hydriot.'iphin has the following, amongst many other splendid passages,...survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter—to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters of our names—to be studied...

...themselves the relics of another race, for the speculations of the curious and the instruction of all. " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without...

...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...

...filled up. To this sarcophagus, how applicable and humiliating are the thoughts of Sir Thomas Brown : " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " Thus," as Washington Irving feelingly expresses it, "man passes away; his name perishes from record...

...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, arid old families...

...names of those recorded upon them f .—Their memorial is perished with them e . e Exodus ii. 22. 1 "Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.— Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.—To be content that times to come should only know there...