 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 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 - English literature - 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 - English language - 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 - English literature - 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 - Authors, English - 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 - English prose literature - 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 - Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...light in ashes ;* since the brother of death1 daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; —...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 - English literature - 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... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - Authors, English - 1890 - 334 pages
...grows 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...oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our livingbeings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
...grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall off like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to... | |
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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,... 
