 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...ef- . fects in these drowsy approaches of night. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act with our 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 roused us from everlasting sleep ? Or have slumbering thoughts... | |
 | 1892 - 710 pages
...Browne says, ' The Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five Ports of Knowledge.' ' The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia,' I will only add my best wishes for all those whose present posy is, ' If Fortune will, I shall ' ;... | |
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