 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1872 - 444 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they...names ever since contain not one living century." I have my moods about such things as the young Astronomer has, as we all have. There are times when... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 pages
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our 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 - English literature - 1873 - 478 pages
...and Methuselah's long life had been his only chroniclé. Oblivion is not to be hired : thé greatest part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in thé register of God, not in thé record of man. Twenty-seven names make up thé first story before... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...find their graves in our short memories., and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our 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. nTHE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 432 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part must...as though they had not been — to be found in the registry of God, not in the record of man. There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ! But... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 430 pages
...the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. "Oblivion is not to be hired. uThe 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 manll Twenty-seven names make up the first story... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Burial - 1878 - 598 pages
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to bs found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part must be content to be as though they had not...the first story before the Flood; and the recorded nanus ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part mast riticism re and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they...names ever since contain not one living century.' I have my moods about such things, as the young Astronomer has, as we all have. There are times when... | |
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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. 
