 The ocean remains. 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...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Side 45af Edmund Burke - 1807Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 sider
...had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers : Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, tvhich the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in -the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 sider
...had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 sider
...had Priareus' hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 sider
...Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe hundred eyes." And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 sider
...Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe hundred eyes." And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 sider
...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...serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.' The second mode of breaking the stubborn spirit of the Americans, by prosecuting it as criminal, he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 sider
...Briareus" hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes ||— 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 sider
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes || 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sider
...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...passionate prayer; — but just as reasonable, as many of these serious wishes of very grave aixi solemn politicians. If then, sir, it seems almost desperate... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 sider
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by dis.i tance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two...passionate prayer; — but just as reasonable, as many of these serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians. If then, sir, it seems almost desperate... | |
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