 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
 | 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... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews - 1918 - 356 pages
...occasionally rime. An analysis of one more sentence from Urn Burial will show these characteristics: And since death 'must be the Lucina of life, and even...longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but whiter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in... | |
 | William Peacock - 1931 - 630 pages
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 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 174 pages
...^Equinox? Every houre addes unto .that fcurrefttr?tnthmetique. fwEct)fr scarce stands one moment. AndTsince death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die;^Since^ur longest Sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 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....descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it can not be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes; since the brother of Death... | |
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