 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,...  Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin - Page 45by sir Thomas Browne - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Bookbindings - 1907 - 82 pages
...old it self, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living being; we slightly remember our felicities,and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 570 pages
...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slip]>ery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...Browne allows himself this ugly homaoteleuton. Darkness | and light divide | the course | of time,1 and oblivion shares | with memory, | a great part | even | of our living | beings ; we slightly | remembered | our felicities, | and the smartest | strokes of affliction | leave but short | smart... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...oblivion shares | with memory, | a great part | even | of our living | beings ; we slightly | remembered | our felicities, | and the smartest | strokes of affliction | leave but short | smart | upon us. I Sense | endureth | no | extremities, | and sorrows | destroy us j or themselves. To weep | into stones... | |
 | John Cowper Powys - Book jackets - 1915 - 750 pages
...Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon without the favour of the everlasting register. . . . Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. To weep into Stones are fables.'" He pronounced these last words with a slow and emphatic intonation.... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. in their art, Hyder All and his more ferocious son,...that, when the British armies traversed, as they did, endurcth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 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...living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and [220 the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities,... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English language - 1922 - 138 pages
...noble elevation as English prose. Here I quote one paragraph of it, characteristic of the whole : — " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows 26 destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Norfolk (England) - 1922 - 180 pages
...it self, bids us hope no long duration : Diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest stroaks of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part...strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the... | |
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