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" 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! "
Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking - Sivu 134
tekijä(t) Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 362 sivua
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The Wishing-cap Papers

Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 sivua
...And this is as real as all the rest. It was thought a modest request in the two lovers to say, — "Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy." * But let the reader peruse only two or three metaphysical treatises (one of them being on time), and...

The Wishing-cap Papers

Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 496 sivua
...And this is as real as all the rest. It was thought a modest request in the two lovers to say, — " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy." * But let the reader peruse only two or three metaphysical treatises (one of them being on time), and...

Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sivua
...in night : God said, " Let Newton be ! " and all was light. Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton. Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Martinus Scriblerus onthe Arlof Sinhingin Poetry. Ch. II. 1 This line is from a poem entitled To the...

Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sivua
...hid in night : God said, " Let Newton be ! " and all was light Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton, Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Martinus Scriblerus on the A rt of Sinking in Poetry. Ch.\\. 1 This line is from a poem entitled To...

Ye Vampyres!: A Legend of the National Betting-ring, Showing what Became of it

Spectre - 1875 - 346 sivua
...easy. It was not a panic-time, and there was therefore no excuse for such conduct.' CHAPTER XXIV. ' Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.' — POPH. It lay upon my Spectral chamber table, Smaller than many a watch, and moved By tickle atmospheres....

Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 sivua
...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 ! " was a pious and passionate prayer, but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very...

Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

1877 - 362 sivua
...and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. SHAKESPERE, Mid. Nighl'i Dream. Lovers. — Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two LOVERs happy. POPE, Art of Sinking in Poetry. Lover's eyes. — A LOVER'S EYES will gaze an eagle blind. SHAKESPERE,...

The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the ...

Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 sivua
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " and lost without a crime, he is much mistaken in his opinion. I de 1 " was a pious and passionate prayer, but just as reasonable as many of these serious wishes of very...

Who Wrote It?: A Dictionary of Common Poetical Quotations in the English ...

Where, Who - 1878 - 186 sivua
...leather or prunella. POPE, Essay on Man, ep. iv. B distant spires, ye antique towers. GRAY, Eton CoUege. Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. POPE, Martin/us Scriblerus, ch. xi. Yet shall I temper so Justice with mercy. MILTON, Paradise Lost,...

Burke, Select Works, Nide 1

Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 sivua
...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 f — was a pious and passionate prayer; but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very...




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