 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die: since our longest sun sets at right desceusions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...us hope no long duration: diuturnity is a dream and f?lly of expectation, " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...doubt whether thus to live, were to die: since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and mukes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration: diuturuity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...of life, and even 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 be long before we lie down * Cuperem notum ewe quod aim, Don opto ut scintnr quulis sini. Card' iu vita proprU. in darkness, and... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...darkness, and have our light in ashes ; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration ; digturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...doubt whether thus to live were to die; since, our longest sun sets at right descendions, und makes bnt ide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. onr light in ashes ; since the brother ot death daily bannis us with dying mementos, and time, that... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 pages
...life, and even Pagans * could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sue sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,...lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes ;f since the brother of death ' daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows * Euripides.... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pages
...of life, and even 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 be long before we lie down G in darkness, and have our light in ashes ; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 pages
...of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die — since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,...haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...to the sphere in which Pythagoras and Plato had moved — the existence we lead here seemed to be a. at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time, that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration ; diuturnity is a dream and... | |
 | 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... | |
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... daily haunts us with dying mementos and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. 
