 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 246 sivua
...absurdities from various authors, with some apparently invented for the occasion, such as the familiar Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy ! and ending with the ingenious receipt to make an epic poem. Most of the passages ridiculed — and,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 sivua
...absurdities from various authors, with some apparently invented for the occasion, such as the familiar " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!" and ending with the ingenious receipt to make an epic poem. Most of the passages ridiculed—and, it... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 sivua
...THOMSON. And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. A Patfl Efilafh. WORDSWORTH. Afitrtinm Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Cn. xi. Fountain heads and pathless grove*, Places... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 sivua
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes.J 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sivua
...in night : God said, ' Let Newton be ! ' and all was light. Epitaph intended for Sir Itaac Newton. Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Jfurtinuj Scriblerus on lite Art of Sinking in Poetry. Ch. 11. O thou ! whatever title please thine... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 sivua
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes.J 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... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 640 sivua
...distance as nothing between countries only too anxious to harmonise, or, as Pope so happily puts it : — "Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy." Then, again, there is the ever-restless battle of the dock owners and freighters, which ought to have... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 sivua
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes.J 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... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 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 these serious wishes of very... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 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 these serious wishes of very... | |
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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! 
