 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 pages
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe those hundred eyes.^ And that modest request of two absent lovers : Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye Godaj annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers...serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians. — Burke on the Ameriean War. CCXX. Few swords, in a just defence, are able to resist many unjust... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...apprehensive either of torment or of annihilation, of being miserable, or of not being at all. Spectator. Ye Gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two...just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of grave and solemn politicians. Burke. ANNIHILATION. — Christians, Heathens, Jews, the Siamese, Persians,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers tappy!" was a pious and passionate prayer;—but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.—Burke on the American War. ccxx. Few swords, in a just defence, are able to resist many... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...continues in ils present bed, во long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " t is the British strength that I consume. I do not...enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict ; and men, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative course, for changing the moral causes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye gods, anni" bilate hut space and time, and make two lovers "happy!" — was...—but just as reasonable, as many of the serious »isbes of very grave and solemn politicians. If then, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...authoRIV by distance will continue. " Ye gods, anni' hílate but space and time, and make two lovers 1 happy ! " — was a pious and passionate prayer ; -but just as reasonable, as many of the serious fishes of very grave and solemn politicians. If then, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think it ;uiv... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " 4k6 O > J G solemu politicians. If then, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative course, for... | |
 | 1843 - 610 pages
...debaters. In fact, steam, which has almost realized the wish of the lovers in NAT. LEE-S tragedy— " Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy !" steam, which is equally potent in the vast and in the little, like the trunk of an elephant, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe those hundred eyes2. And that modest request of two absent lovers : Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
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The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry, and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy... 
