 | 1820 - 394 pages
...misery makes Alcmena's nights, [one night as long as three] and time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...to future being ; although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...misery makes Alcmena's nights, [one night as long as three] and time hath no Wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...to future being ; although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...Adversity stretcheth our days, misery makes Alcmena's nights, and time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the male-content of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity : content to have so far... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...many are too early old, and before the date of age. Adversity stretcheth our days. * * But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...to future being ; although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. * * * What time the persons of those ossuaries... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...Adversity stretcheth our days, misery makes Alcmena's nights,* and time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...content to have so far been, as to have a title to a future being, although he had lived here but in a hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion.... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...many are too early old, and before the date of age. Adversity stretcheth our days. * * But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...beyond the malcontent of Job, who cursed, not the day of.his life, but his nativity ; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being; although... | |
 | 1820 - 398 pages
...misery makes Alcmena's nights, [one night as long as three] and time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...to future being ; although he had lived here but in a hidden state of lite, and as it were an abortion. " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...contracted, signified a hundred. t One night as long as three. time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...nothing, or never to have been ; which was beyond the malecontent of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity, content to have so far been,... | |
 | 1831 - 370 pages
...contracted, signified a hundred. t One night as long as three. time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...nothing, or never to have been ; which was beyond the malecontent of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity, content to have so far been,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...streteheth our days, misery makes Alcmena's nights,ยง and time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content...as to have a title to future being, although he had Oracula Chaldaica cum scholiis Pselli et Phethonu, B/'sJ JttiOagururai. Vi corpus reliniiuentium anima... | |
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Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. 
