 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1792 - 676 pàgines
...publifh his proclamation of liberty, and to advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over.' The ocean remains. You...pump this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye ** gods,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pàgines
...charter, has given to the children of men. Ibid. AMERICA (THE OCEAN'.) BUT let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You...pump ,' this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent , bed; io long all the caulcs which weaken authority by diitance will continue. " Ye gods,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 pàgines
...publifh his proclamation of liberty, and to advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You...pump this dry ;• and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. 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... 
