 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 548 sivua
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sivua
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 sivua
...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.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 568 sivua
...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... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 sivua
...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 sivua
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 sivua
...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 sivua
...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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... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes... 
