 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 382 pàgines
...request for an infinite series of operations utterly beyond our knowledge. It is the old story : — 4 Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy ! ' The insect asks that the pebble which obstructs its path may be removed ; and it really asks, though... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 496 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Spectre - 1875 - 346 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 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 of very... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pàgines
...to shapes, 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,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 pàgines
...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,... | |
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! 
