 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,...  Histoire de la littérature anglaise - Page 353by Hippolyte Taine - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables....of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables....of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil -days ; and our delivered... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables....of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into Stones are fables....or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is nounhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables....of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves..^ To weep into stones are fables....of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest tin, mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...and sorrows destroy us, or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is merciful provision in nature,... | |
 | 1820 - 398 pages
...no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or -themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictioni induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall...of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...short smart upon us. Sense euduroth no extremities, ami sorrows destroy us or themselves, 'lo \veep upland lawn. * 'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic enow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of tvils to come, ami... | |
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