 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 400 pàgines
...tho' he had Briarens's hundred hands To wipe his hundred cyes.f And that modest request of two absent lovers ; Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time,...happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the cirt cumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and shall again in the twelfth.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pàgines
...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 pas501] 503] Debate on Mr. Burke's Resolutions f5M sionate prayer ; — but just... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pàgines
...Briareus's hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes. J — — And that modest request of two absent lovers : Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time,...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and shall again in the twelfth. To the same class of the magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pàgines
...had Briareus's hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes. J • And that modest request of two absent lovers: Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time, And...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and shall again in the twelfth. To the same class of the magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1818 - 814 pàgines
...Only to save from the melting-pot a few hundreds of antichristian and vice-engendering Sinecures. — Ye Gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy ! — Compared with the inward Episcopal prayer included in the above doctrine, this amorous one was... | |
 | 1819 - 544 pàgines
...puts me in mind of a noted passage, containing a petition equally reasonable in one of Dryden's plays, Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! Again, 1 should be glad to know whether congress meeting for the good of the nation, and having no... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pàgines
...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 pr.iyer ; — but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 412 pàgines
...though he had Briareus1 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. II. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pàgines
...inues 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. piuus and passionate prayer, but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave... | |
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! 
