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" Though Somnus in Homer be sent to rouse up Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in... "
Poems - Page 113
by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pages
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America,...they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering thoughts...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 pages
...was willing to spare himself the recollection." P. 99, 1. 25. And stars are kindling in thejlrmament, An old writer breaks off in a very lively manner at...they are already past their first sleep in Persia." 113 BEFORE I conclude, I would say something in favour of the old-fashioned triplet, which I have here...
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer, were but to act our Antipodes.7 The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering thoughts...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1837 - 704 pages
...illustrative annotation furnished by the editor and his friends. ' to keep our eyes open longer, were but to act our Antipodes. ' The huntsmen are up in America,...they are already past 'their first sleep in Persia.' It was well commented on this, when Coleridge wrote in the margin, ' Think you that there ever ' was...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...the phantasms of sleep — that to keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes — that the huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia." On this Coleridge exclaims, " Was there ever such a reason given before for going to bed at midnight?...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...such" effects in these drowsy approaches of night. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act with our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and...they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour, which roused us from everlasting sleep ? Or have slumbering thoughts...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...the true natural system of plants, is very curiously and sagaciously anticipated by our author.—Sr. our Antipodes/ The huntsmen are up in America, and...they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering thoughts...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...that time. t J)e lii.vjmitii*. $ Artemidorus ct Apomuzar. § Strewed with roues. • our Antipodes.7 The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering thoughts...
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 2

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...system of plants, is very curiously and sagaciously anticipated by our author. — Br. our Antipodes.7 The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering thoughts...
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Notes, theological, political, and miscellaneous, ed. by D. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...making tables of cobwebbes, and wildernesses of handsome groves. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America,...they are already past their first sleep in Persia.' Think you, my dear Friend, that there ever was such a reason given before for going to bed at midnight...
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