 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 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 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... | |
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