 | William Fraser Rae - 1877 - 332 páginas
...point is enough to defeat a whole system." He said in another part of the same speech: "But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The...which weaken authority by distance will continue." Again : " You will doubtless imagine that I am on the point of proposing to you a scheme for a representation... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. SHAKESPERE, Mid. Nighl'i Dream. Lovers. — Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two LOVERs happy. POPE, Art of Sinking in Poetry. Lover's eyes. — A LOVER'S EYES will gaze an eagle blind. SHAKESPERE,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 páginas
...and to advertise his sale of slaves. . But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. K ^ The Ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ; and...annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy f — was a pious and passionate prayer; but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 páginas
...leather or prunella. POPE, Essay on Man, ep. iv. B distant spires, ye antique towers. GRAY, Eton CoUege. Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. POPE, Martin/us Scriblerus, ch. xi. Yet shall I temper so Justice with mercy. MILTON, Paradise Lost,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 246 páginas
...absurdities from various authors, with some apparently invented for the occasion, such as the familiar Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy ! and ending with the ingenious receipt to make an epic poem. Most of the passages ridiculed — and,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 páginas
...absurdities from various authors, with some apparently invented for the occasion, such as the familiar " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!" and ending with the ingenious receipt to make an epic poem. Most of the passages ridiculed—and, it... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...THOMSON. And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. A Patfl Efilafh. WORDSWORTH. Afitrtinm Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Cn. xi. Fountain heads and pathless grove*, Places... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 páginas
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes.J And that modest request of two absent 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 páginas
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes.J And that modest request of two absent 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... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 640 páginas
...distance as nothing between countries only too anxious to harmonise, or, as Pope so happily puts it : — "Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy." Then, again, there is the ever-restless battle of the dock owners and freighters, which ought to have... | |
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But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry; and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. ' Ye gods, annihilate but space... 
