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" 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 113
by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pages
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 2

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...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 2

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...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus

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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The Age of Milton

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...
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The Age of Milton

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...
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Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Youngest Sister

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....
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Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature

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,...
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A Little Book of English Prose

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...
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English Composition: A Manual of Theory and Practice

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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My Favourite Books

Robert Blatchford - Best books - 1901 - 266 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...they are already past their first sleep in Persia. Of this curious and beautiful passage Coleridge says — Was ever such a reason given before for going...
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