| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 páginas
...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...just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians. If then, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.' The second mode of breaking the stubborn spirit of the Americans,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 páginas
...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 - 498 páginas
...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 páginas
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. l* Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two....just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians. If then, Sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative... | |
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