 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 Seiten
...drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though the brass and marble remain,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1829 - 654 Seiten
...retentive memory. Mr. Locke, speaking of the continual decay of our ideas, beautifully observes, " The ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before as: and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though the brass and marble... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 Seiten
...reflection become dull and languid, and "thus," to borrow the words of a great Christian philosopher, "thus the ideas as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain,... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 Seiten
...most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, there at last remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching, where though the brass and marble remain, yet the... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 Seiten
...most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, there at last remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching, where though the brass and marble remain, yet the... | |
 | 1833 - 814 Seiten
...bestows. And, like his own fair flowers. Look up in sunshine with a smile, And gently bend in showers. THE ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain,... | |
 | 1833 - 370 Seiten
...softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the heart. — COLERIDOE. The ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 Seiten
...footsteps or remaining characters of themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn." — " The ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though the brass and marble remain,... | |
 | 1837 - 224 Seiten
...dirger's time to save, Hang down thy little passing-bell And ring me to my grave ! COLLECTIVE WISDOM. THE IDEAS as well as children, of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the... | |
 | 1839 - 836 Seiten
...excursions into that incomprehensible inane." On referring to the decay of the faculties, he observes, " Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain,... | |
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Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders... 
