| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 páginas
...had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers : Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, tvhich the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in -the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 páginas
...had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers : Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 páginas
...advertise his sale of slaves. But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long as it continues...serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians. If then, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative course, for changing the moral causes... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 páginas
...had Priareus' hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers. Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples • in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 páginas
...Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe hundred eyes." And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers. " Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Time, " And make two lovers happy." 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 páginas
...Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe hundred eyes." And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers. " Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, " And make two lovers happy'." 2. The PERIPHRASIS, -which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 páginas
...advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over.' The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye ** gods,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 páginas
...AMERICA (THE OCEAN'.) BUT let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump ,' this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent , bed; io long all the caulcs which weaken authority by diitance will continue. " Ye gods,... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 páginas
...art. ' But let us,' proceeds he, ' suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean re-*mains. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long as it continues...serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.' The second mode of breaking the stubborn spirit of the Americans, by prosecuting it as criminal, he... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 páginas
...advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ;• and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate... | |
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