Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyts New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. | | Oblivion |
| Oblivion is not to be hired. Sir Thomas BrowneHydriotaphia. Ch. V. | 1 |
For those sacred powers Tread on oblivion: no desert of ours Can be entombed in their celestial breasts. Wm. BrowneBritannias Pastorals. Bk. III. Song II. St. 23. | 2 |
It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumbd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When all is lost, except a little life. ByronLines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill. L. 9. | 3 |
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past. CarlyleCromwells Letters and Speeches. Introduction. Ch. I. | 4 |
And oer the past oblivion stretch her wing. HomerOdyssey. Bk. XXIV. L. 557. Popes trans. | 5 |
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. Job. VII. 10. | 6 |
Injuriarum remedium est oblivio. Oblivion is the remedy for injuries. SenecaEpistles. 94. Quoting from an old poet, also found in Syrus. | 7 |
Whats past and whats to come is strewd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 166. | 8 |
Eo magis præfulgebant quod non videbantur. They shone forth the more that they were not seen. Tacitus. Adapted from Annals. Bk. III. 76. | 9 |
But from your minds chilled sky It needs must drop, and lie with stiffened wings Among your souls forlornest things; A speck upon your memory, alack! A dead fly in a dusty window-crack. Francis ThompsonManus Animam Pinxit. St. 2. | 10 | |
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