 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 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...light in ashes ; since the brother of death daily hannts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ;... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...adds unto the current arithmetick which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus...were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pages
...to be eight times the number of the living inhabitants of the parish. since death must be the Lucina of life ; and even Pagans could doubt whether thus...have our light in ashes ; since the brother of death [sleep] daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 478 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since deatrr must be thé Lucina of life; and even Pagans could doubt whether thus...cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and hâve our light in ashes; since thé brother of death daily haunts us with dying mémentos, and time,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 388 pages
...the Lucina of life ; since our longest sun sets on right declensions, and makes but winter arches, therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes. Sense endureth no extremities, and sor^, rows destroy us or themselves : our deliverelTsenses not relapsing... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even pagans could donbt whether thus to live were to die: since our longest sun sets at right descensión», and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration — diuturnity is a dream... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English essays - 1875 - 412 pages
...adds nnto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even 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... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetick, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus...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,—Hydriotaphia.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since our longest sun makes but winter arcs,6 and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down...and have our light in ashes ; * since the brother of death7 daily haunts us with dying-mementos, and time, that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration... | |
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... daily 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. 
