Oblivion will enshroud these gropings after effect, for they are of no interest to the public.
When one heard him speak with his fiery enthusiasm about these works of the past which the world had forgotten, one could but believe that such oblivion was unjust and desire to know these relics of another age.
He calls and they come, leaving strife, Leaving discord and death, Out of oblivionto life, Though its span be a breath.
For the melody and marring, When they put the dear oblivion on, Are become as fresh clay for the potter, Neither good nor bad, for use anon.
Poor Love that roved so far And fared so ill, Between the morning star And the Hollow Hill, Before he found the vale Where he could bide, With memory and oblivion Side by side.
The danger which menaces the continuance of our constitution proceeds simply from the oblivion of those Christian ideas by which it was originally inspired.
The eighteenth century acquiesced in this oblivion of corporate rights on the Continent, for the absolutists cared only for the State, and the liberals only for the individual.
I fear then, that, although an emperor’s cruelty proved insufficient, our own regardless inactivity may gradually succeed in casting the veil of oblivion over the resplendent genius of this man.
He carried on the old rotation of cropping in the piece of arable land belonging to the farm, but in total oblivion of any advantage to be obtained by local change of treatment.
The editions of Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde were his delight, and he was indefatigable in his researches after such old English writers as have fallen into oblivion from their worthlessness.
O my oblivion is a very Antony And I am all forgotten.
Like ivie they cling close about Cornelius' bulke; till sleepe surprize them, oblivion divide them, and brave Cornelius guide them to his tub.
Mr. Sumner responded as follows:-- The Senator from Nevada has made a speech which is founded on oblivion of the past.
She hated him still more that he had intruded upon her forgetfulness, her happy oblivion of the moment, and sprang from the bed, intending to pen a hasty refusal.
She could fully appreciate the mental condition of the man who seeks oblivion at any cost to himself.
So at dawn they went away--as far as they could on their scanty means--and the veil of a merciful oblivion fell over their future fate as scheming adventuresses to the end of their days.
However little the individual may lend himself to it, oblivion soon covers him like a shroud.
The world has passed it by, and left all its subtle casuistries and painfully microscopic studies of the letter of Scripture--with utter oblivion of its spirit--left them all severely and wisely alone.
But oblivion is foolish, if it is continual, and a remembered past has treasures in it which we can little afford to lose.
Oblivion and silence are the proper punishments to be inflicted upon all that we meet with in the way of what is ungainly or vulgar in the course of our journey through life.
When both oblivion and memory are wise, then the general soul is clear, melodious, and true”.
Without oblivion there is no remembrance possible.
There was a roaring in my ears like the roaring of the bath when the tap is left on; many waters seemed to rush upon me; my hat fell off, and then deep oblivion came over me and I swooned.
For the thirty-fifth time since the beginning of the month deep oblivion came over me, and I swooned.
But I, since I have attained to an oblivion of all evil, and shun the overpowering envy that follows me, and the vanity of high position, shall not come to Persia.
Not only are all the prejudices and party bearings of individual jurors avoided, but an honest and manly oblivion of all the evidence which might bias men if left to the guidance of their poor and erring faculties, is thus secured.
Yet in his loneliness he thanked God for bringing her oblivion in these last moments, and with his face crushed to hers he waited.
It was their first hour alone--of utter oblivion to all else but themselves; to Joanne the first sacrament hour of her wifehood, to him the first hour of perfect possession and understanding.
They went down to the Blacktons, and Peggy and Paul, who were busy over some growing geraniums in the dining-room window, faced about with a forced and incongruous appearance of total oblivion to everything that had happened.
Out of this oblivion a still brighter day roused him.
Disgrace and death behind her; death and oblivion before her.
It has been said, and with easily assignable cause, that the soldier on the eve of battle is more sensitive to the softer passions of the heart and the oblivion of all else which these passions induce, than any other mortal.
After the utter oblivion and darkness of a deep swoon, consciousness flashed like light on my mind, when I found myself in my father's presence, and in my own home.
And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had taken away out of his chamber.
That is, a gift or offering made to God, by way of an everlasting monument, to prevent the oblivion or forgetting so great a benefit.
And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed.
For a haze of oblivion is formed by lapse of time and space; a kindly haze which obliterates the thousand fretting annoyances wherewith the traveller's path in every country is bestrewn.
Scoville now dismounted and gave the reins to Chunk, who stood near with a droll assumption of soldier-like stiffness and oblivion to all the well-known faces.
Recourse was again had to the jug, and oblivion soon followed.
