 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pagina’s
...fair examples of his style. OBLIVION. Oblivion is not to be hired ; ' the greatest part must be as content to be as though they had not been ; to be...first story before the flood ; and the recorded names contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1885 - 588 pagina’s
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell ns how we may be buried in onr survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S URN BURIAL. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris. Both... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pagina’s
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been hia only chronicle. • Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be aa though ftev had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seren... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 pagina’s
...scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 pagina’s
...scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long excecdeth... | |
 | 1886 - 218 pagina’s
...is sold for balsams. . . . The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, only to be found in the register of God, not in the record...names ever since contain not one living century." I have taken some leaves from my scrap-book, with extracts from various authors, showing both wellfounded... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pagina’s
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Nimrod. " His face seemed to me as long and as broad...which concealed him from the waist downwards, neverth and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | 1887 - 216 pagina’s
...consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise. Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. . . . The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, only to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pagina’s
...The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselahs long life had been his only Chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1888 - 542 pagina’s
...pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Oblivion is not to be bribed. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the record of God, not in that of man." Browne, Urn Burial, v. 85. " The tale" Dante, in the succeeding... | |
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Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. 
