 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pagina’s
...our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arehes, and therefore it cannot IKi long before we lie down in darkness, and have our...of death daily haunts us with dying mementos, and tinie, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; — dinturm'ty is a dream and folly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pagina’s
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions. and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration : diutumity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pagina’s
...the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes ;i since the brother of death3 daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1918 - 774 pagina’s
...Buriall.' I read my way languidly through his quaint fancies and echoing phrases, and paused upon this : ' Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying...mementos, and time that grows old itself bids us hope of no long duration, Diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.' I was strangely weary. I felt... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pagina’s
...the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes ;2 since the brother of death3 daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 pagina’s
...up the first story, and the recorded names Before the - ,. - , , ever since contain not one Jiving century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all...dying mementos, and time, that grows old itself, bids trs hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 pagina’s
...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names Before the . . ... flood. ever since contain not one living century. The number...arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie clown in darkness, and have our light in ashes ; * since the brother of death daily haunts us with... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pagina’s
...whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but whiter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we...haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream, and folly of expectation. Darkness... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pagina’s
...to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and Iherefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes; since the brother of deaih daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pagina’s
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; diuturnity is a dream, and folly of expectation. OCEAN.... | |
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... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes... 
