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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Page 222
1831
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

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...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 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 be long before we lie down * Cuperem notum ewe quod aim, Don opto ut scintnr quulis sini. Card' iu vita proprU. in darkness, and...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

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...
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...Pagans * could doubt, whether thus to live were to die; since our longest subsets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes ;f since the brother of death i daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows • Euripides....
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 pages
...arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we 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. f According to (he custom of the Jews; who place a lighted wax-candle in a pat of ashes...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

1837 - 568 pages
...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...us with dying mementos, and time, ' that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration — diutur' nity is a dream, and folly of expectation. Darkness...
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Cemetery interment

George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 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 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...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 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...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...
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Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...Pythagoras and Plato had moved — the existence we lead here seemed to be a. at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...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...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceeded! all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth...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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