| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...ashes ; since the brother of death daily haunts u* with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in appease the people, sending troops of soldiers and guards to cause them to retire into y Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...: diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; — diuturuity is a dream and folly of expectation. . Darkness... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...character of death. • Gniteri Inscriptionts AnUqiue. finee our longest sun sets at right descensions, vements, though perform'd &t height. The pith and...That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As i iu with dying memento*, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; diuturnity... | |
| Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, aud therefore can not be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time, that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration — diuiurnity is a dream... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...winter arches, and therefore it cannut be lonç brfore we lie down in darkness, and have our li^ht o hard, for Shakspeare died of a fever there contracted.' We place no great reliance on this testim in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; diutumity is a ¿rnim, and folly of expectation. l>arkn«>3... | |
| 1848 - 574 pages
...doubt whether thus to live were to die, — since our longest suns set at right descensions, and make but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our night in ashes — since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementos ; and time, that... | |
| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1849 - 238 pages
...whether thus to live, were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right drscensions. and makes but wmter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we...: diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...longest .sun eels at right descendions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be IOD£ to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions o u* with ib'ing mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; diuturnity... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...character of death. 9 Grnteri Inscriptiones Antlqu. •incc our longest sun sets at right descensions, hare our light in ashes ; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time,... | |
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