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,... The American Whig Review - Page 181848Full view - About this book
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 336 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...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...2. OBLIVION, THE CONDITION OF LIFE. (FROM " HYDKIOTAPHIA (UBN BURIAL)," PUBLISHED IK 1658.) DABKNESS and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities (ie has a limit to its power of endurance), and sorrows destroy us or themselves.... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 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...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... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...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...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...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...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...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...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| 1872 - 556 pages
...future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 478 pages
...expectation. Darkness and light divide thé course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a gréât part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and thé smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sensé endureth no extremities,... | |
| Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...grows old it•*!f. bids us hope no long duration: diuturnity ь u dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...great part even of our living beings; we slightly remembir our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 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...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
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