 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,...  Quarterly Essays - Page 162by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...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...To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...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...To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...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...To weep into Stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is nounhappy stupidity.... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...and the smartest strokes of affliction have but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremi ties, and sorrows destroy us, or themselves. To weep into stones are fables." Is not the masterly pen of Sir Thomas Browne visible in these words? I could never think on melancholy... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of pur living beings. We slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest...To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings. We sl ; ghtly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes...To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity.... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...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...destroy us, or themselves. To weep into stones are fafbles. Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding... | |
 | 1820 - 398 pages
...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...us or -themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictioni induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding... | |
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