 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 113by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Parmly Dunn - 1926 - 210 pages
...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... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - English literature - 1926 - 416 pages
...low and it is time to close the five ports of knowledge. ... 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." Even when Browne deals with the subject he has most at heart — oblivion — he gives free play to... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer, were but bner's sons But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - English literature - 1926 - 410 pages
...low and it is time to close the five ports of knowledge. ... 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." Even when Browne deals with the subject he has most at heart — oblivion — he gives free play to... | |
 | American essays - 1898 - 984 pages
...Mill Hill. Were not the weather so wet, were not, etc., etc., so many etceteras, I could almost think huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia." 460 461 of running up to join you still ! But that is evidently «»feasible at present. The opening... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...I finde 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 Pertia. But who can be drowsie at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbring... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 644 pages
...you are. My own health is quite very good; 1 am a healthy octogenarian; very old, I thank you, and " 'The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia.' From the last paragraph of Browne's The Garden of Cyrus (1658). 'Echoing Numbers 6: 24-6 and Psalm... | |
 | Dorothy May Emerson, June Edwards, Helene Knox - Religion - 2000 - 644 pages
...nations, are getting ready to work for their own emancipation from the bondage of centuries. The women are "up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia." For them the hour has indeed struck, the morning light has dawned, and they are forever awakened to... | |
 | Deborah Cohen, Maura O'Connor - History - 2004 - 238 pages
...when he compared his own bedtime in England with that of other peoples in more distant time zones: "The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia"^ However, a diachronic conception of globality, "the idea that human beings inhabit a unitary and finite... | |
 | Deborah Cohen, Maura O'Connor - Europe - 2004 - 238 pages
...when he compared his own bedtime in England with that of other peoples in more distant time zones: "The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia."16 However, a diachronic conception of globality, "the idea that human beings inhabit a unitary... | |
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