 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,...  AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY - Page 96by JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 592 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 oblivion...memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightiy remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon... | |
 | 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...short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities (ie has a limit to its power of endurance), and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 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 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...itself, bids us hope no long duration ; — diuturnity is a dream, and folly of expectation. ' Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon 113, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be iguorant of evils to come, and forgetful... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...itself, bids. us hope no long duration ; — diuturnity is a dream, and folly of expectation. ' Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries arc slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...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 oblivion...Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fell like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 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
...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 oblivion...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
...itself, bids us hope no long duration — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...Afflictions induce callosities — miseries are slippery, or fail like snow upon ns, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to coine,... | |
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