 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
 | John Todhunter - Essays (Irish) - 1920 - 180 pages
...spin out our awaking thoughts into the Phantasms 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." In my own poor garden, the shadows of the trees are long upon the grass. The great Angels of Time and... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1922 - 270 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... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 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... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...Agamemnon, I finde no such effects in the 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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. Tcj 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... | |
 | Hope Mirrlees - Dramatists - 1925 - 344 pages
...Dutch rival. One gets the sense a little when at the end of The Garden of Cyrus Sir Thomas Browne says: "The huntsmen are up in America and they are already past their first sleep in Persia." Its finest expression, he said, was to be found in the Daily Mirror. But early training and tastes... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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