...descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, [210 and have our light in ashes; since the brother of...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...

...serves as epigraph to the novel, and reads, in part: ". . . our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...our light in ashes; since the brother of death daily hunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity...

...Ruins of a Great House though our longest sun sets at right declensions and makes but winter arches, it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes . . . BROWNE: Um Burial Stones only, the disjecta membra of this Great House, Whose moth-like girls...

...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse, and have our light in ashes. Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's,...

...destruction in loving, of love. Styron uses as an epigraph to his work a quotation by Sir Thomas Browne: "... and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying momentos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration— divinity is a dream and...

...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right decensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's, and time that grows old it self, bids us hope no long duration: Diuturnity is a dream and...

...of thy friend's". ' An epigraph taken from Sir Thomas Browne accentuates his focus in the same poem: "it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes" ("Urn Burial"). He takes his cue from Traherne's "The corn was orient and immortal wheat", in his poem...

...epigraph, moreover (from Thomas Browne's Urn Burial), spells out the theme of mutability and decay : ". . . it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes . . ."(19). The speaker's historical perspective is taken back further to men like Hawkins, Raleigh,...

...century. For example, it underlies the concluding passages of Sir Thomas Browne's Ume-Burial, 1658: "Since our longest Sun sets at right declensions,...therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse," Ume-Burial 5 in vol 3 of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Charles Sayle (Edinburgh:...

...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse, and have our lights in ashes. Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's,...