 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 Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...precogitations, making cables of cobwebs, and wildernesses of handsome groves. To keep our eyes open longer, were to act our antipodes ! The huntsmen are up in America ; and they have already passed their first sleep in Persia.' Think you, my dear friend, that there ever was such... | |
 | Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson - Women - 1883 - 304 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...Mystically Considered. 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 rouses us from our everlasting sleep ? Or have slumbering... | |
 | Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson - Women - 1883 - 334 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1880 - 484 pages
...secogitations,—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;—to... | |
 | 1899 - 482 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1886 - 542 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. Btft who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep t or have slumbering thoughts... | |
 | George Saintsbury - England - 1887 - 530 pages
...Cyrus, where he determines that it is time to go to bed, because " 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." A fancy so whimsical as this, and yet so admirable in its whimsies, requires a style in accordance... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1892 - 412 pages
...Agamemnon, I find no such effect 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... | |
 | American fiction - 1903 - 548 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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