Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every... The Quarterly Review - Page 346edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 pages
...The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment....Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die : eince our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment....must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could 35 doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right descensions and makes... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 484 pages
...surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? Every honr adds unto that current arithinetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life : and even Pagans conld donbt whether thus to live werc to die; since our longes! sun sets at right descensions, and... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 pages
...The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment....live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 pages
...far surpasseth | the day, | and who | knows when | was the ^Equinox ? | Every | hour | adds | unto that current | Arithmetic | which scarce | stands | one moment. | And since death [ must be j the Lucina | of life, | and even Pagans | could doubt, | whether 'thus | to live, | were to die.... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 pages
...The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment....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... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetie, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina6 ce at Seint Jame, and at Coloigne declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...The night of time far surpasscth the day; and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto hes and receives. 3° LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BAN 6 of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which .scarce stands one moment. And since u With something of a lofty utterance dressed; Choice word, and measured phras jto live were to die; since our longest sun xsets at right descensions, and makes but Jwinter arches,... | |
| 1916 - 792 pages
...The night of time far surpasseth the day ; and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto ss and crownless in Lucina6 of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun... | |
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