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
| Questions and answers - 1892 - 414 pages
...I find no such effect in the,se 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 Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 628 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 Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 624 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 - Gardening - 1896 - 252 pages
...find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes r 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 JO2 us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts... | |
| John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 308 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... | |
| John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our i 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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1899 - 318 pages
...Referring to a passage in the Garden of Cyrus, near the end : " 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." to his taste, as one might well say to any woman who kissed the cow that pastured there. Friday, 23rd.... | |
| Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...that point he is prepared for sleep and oblivion of quinary arrangements : " To keep our eyes open longer were to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are...they are already past their first sleep in Persia." An excellent and a poetic reason for moving bedward — the wave of sleep is washing round the globe,... | |
| Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 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 drowsie at that howr which freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbring thoughts... | |
| Leslie Cope Cornford - English language - 1900 - 256 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 1 or have slumbering thoughts... | |
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