 | 1819 - 596 pages
...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...— diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. • To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, — was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...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...— diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. • To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, — was... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...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...yet more impressive, than the following dissuasive from anxiety for earthly renown ? " Restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...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...: diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die: since our longest sun sets at right desceusions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...us hope no long duration: diuturnity is a dream and f?lly of expectation, " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...doubt whether thus to live, were to die: since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and mukes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long...that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration: diuturuity is a dream and folly of expectation. " Darkness and light divide the course of time, and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...: diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...First story before the flood. f Euripide. to die; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...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 be long before we lie down * Cuperem notum ewe quod aim, Don opto ut scintnr quulis sini. Card' iu vita proprU. in darkness, and... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...darkness, and have our light in ashes ; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration ; digturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of... | |
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... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes... 
