He was yet too young to realize the healing power of time, how it bears forgetfulness on its kindly wings, how its shadow becomes finally a shield, by which the keen daggers of remembrance are blunted and turned aside.
We have had some such forgetfulness in our own land of late years.
Just what Gretchen's letter to Arthur contained, Jerrie never knew, except that it was full of love and tenderness, with no word of complaint for the neglect and forgetfulness which must have hastened her death.
The entire past is unrolled before His sight; His book records all that men do or suffer, even their tears;(235) and there is no forgetfulness with Him.
No man is so intellectual that he cannot enjoy occasional recreation and a forgetfulness of mental activities.
This forgetfulness however was not due entirely to exuberance over a novel procedure.
At that meeting, I explained by what miracle death did not exist for me, it being merely for man forgetfulness of the past, or rather how, during twenty centuries, I had dwelt in succeeding bodies for my immortal soul.
Never was seen such ignorance of the times and such forgetfulness of the characteristics of France!
The Wanderer had forgotten, but it was not sure that the artificial forgetfulness would be proof against an actual sight of the woman once so dearly loved.
Would his forgetfulness of Beatrice and his coldness to herself return with the subsidence of his passion?
Pascal was much attached to Albine, and deeply regretted the sad love affair which resulted from Mouret's forgetfulness of his past.
And yet he had not spoken the truth; he had carried his devotion, his self-forgetfulness to the point of immolating himself to what he believed to be her happiness.
And this embittered his every hour; if through momentary forgetfulness he permitted himself to indulge in a little gaiety his distress soon returned with greater poignancy than ever, bringing with it a sudden and inexplicable sadness.
And this helped to perfect his character, to elevate him to a complete forgetfulness of self.
Forgetfulness of the past and eager anticipation for the future are, we sometimes think, the child's prerogatives.
T was so enchanting that at times I found myself gasping through very forgetfulness to breathe, and I was dreadfully rallied and quizzed because I burst into tears when the poor minor seemed to have lost both his love and his property.
T was a moment's selfish forgetfulness of you and of my own position, that shall not occur again.
He sought forgetfulness in a species of mental intoxication, and countenanced his daughter's love idyll with such apparent approval that Lord Ventnor wondered whether Sir Arthur were not suffering from senile decay.
Thus do English new-comers to India pass the first three months' residence in the country in momentary terror of snakes, and the remaining thirty years in complete forgetfulness of them.
Seek out the unfrequented path of prayer;--choked it may be with the weeds of forgetfulness and sloth.
His very mercy and forbearance may be misconstrued by you, as if it indicated on His part indifference to His word and forgetfulness of your sin.
In dealing with your daughter, madame," he continued, "one has to be careful not to take advantage of her forgetfulness of herself.
I shall leave a paper stating the object and cause of my attempt; but I shall go into it nameless, and the happiest thing I can hope for is that forgetfulness will gather round it and me as speedily as may be.
Though Time softened the mother's anguish of loss, there would be no forgetfulness for Saxham, the grim stern man whose nature was Fidelity.
It had not occurred to Saxham when Patrine had gulped out her pitiful story, and he had heartened her by bidding her forget, that forgetfulness would speedily be accomplished at the cost of an honest man.
The great Roman writers manifest that kind of self-consciousness which accompanies resolute and successful effort; while the Greeks enjoy that happy self-forgetfulness which attends the unimpeded exercise of a natural gift.
The perception of the debt which they owed to their Greek masters, has led to some forgetfulness of their original merits.
Little children suffer too, though the gift of forgetfulness does for them what the gift of faith does for their parents--helps them over many troubles, besides tingling fingers and stony feet.
Though all Galloway should have forgotten me, I would have expected a letter from you ere now; but I will not expound it to be forgetfulness of me.
Impute it not to a disrespective forgetfulness of your Ladyship, who ministered to me in my bonds, that I write not to you.
I long to see you in this northern world on paper; I know it is not forgetfulnessthat ye write not.
Such is the indigence of dethroned Kings, and their complete forgetfulness of the greatest perils and the most signal services.
Duc d'Orleans repaired his forgetfulness by the bishopric of Laon, and upon the refusal of M.
He was oftentimes thus absent, but never when business or serious matters were concerned, so that his forgetfulness was amusing.
They embraced, promisedforgetfulness on both sides, and a new friendship from that time.
Lewis forgot himself, and his forgetfulness ennobled him.
Who has told you a terrible story, which was buried in grief andforgetfulness long ago, when the unhappy lad found his grave under the sea?
There was an instant forgetfulness of individual suffering.
