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,... History of English Literature - Página 345por Hippolyte Taine - 1906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves....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 senses not relapsing... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves....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 senses not relapsing... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves....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... | |
| 1821 - 772 páginas
...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 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves....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 senses not relapsing... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves..^...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 senses not relapsing... | |
| 1826 - 548 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest 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. Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity.... | |
| 1826 - 548 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows 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 páginas
...our felicities, and the smartest 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. Afflictioni induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding... | |
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