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
| 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... | |
| Angus Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 350 pages
...Ferry," or Ashbery's "A Wave," will pass unheeded. There is a diurnal truth we may so easily lose. "The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia,"16 wrote Sir Thomas Browne in an essay on the magical numbers devising the Garden of Cyrus.... | |
| 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... | |
| Virginia Woolf - Literary Collections - 2008 - 288 pages
...play on 'Othello's occupation's gone' in Act III Scene iii. 219 'The huntsmen are up in America ....': 'The Huntsmen are up in America, and 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... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 348 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 Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1836 - 788 pages
...low, ' and 'tis 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.' It was well commented on this, when Coleridge wrote in the margin, ' Think you that there ever ' was... | |
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