 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 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 f — was a pious and passionate prayer; but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 246 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pàgines
...though he had Briareus' 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 magnifying may be referred the following, which are... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pàgines
...though he had Briareus' 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 magnifying may be referred the following, which are... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 640 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...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 - 1883 - 480 pàgines
...though he had Briareus' 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 magnifying may be referred the following, which are... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 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 these serious wishes of very... | |
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! 
