 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...had Briareus' hundred hands To wipe those hundred eyes. And that modest request of two absent lovers: Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. To the same class of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which are so excellently modern,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy!" — was a pious and pas501] 503] Debate on Mr. Burke's Resolutions f5M sionate prayer ; — but just as reasonable, as... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...Briareus's hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes. J • And that modest request of two absent lovers: Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two...serious wishes of very, grave and solemn politicians. quite easy to remove the natural) which produce prejudices irreconcileablr to the late exercise of... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Catechetics - 1818 - 814 pages
...Only to save from the melting-pot a few hundreds of antichristian and vice-engendering Sinecures. — Ye Gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy ! — Compared with the inward Episcopal prayer included in the above doctrine, this amorous one was... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy !" — . was a pious and passionate pr.iyer ; — but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.... | |
 | Books - 1819 - 544 pages
...puts me in mind of a noted passage, containing a petition equally reasonable in one of Dryden's plays, Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! Again, 1 should be glad to know whether congress meeting for the good of the nation, and having no... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. "Ye Gods annihilât: but space and time, and make two lovers happy'" Was...just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of тегу grave and solemn politicians. If then, sir, it seems almost desperate to think of any alternative... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...inues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. "Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy!" Was a. piuus and passionate prayer, but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and... | |
 | E. Barton - Ireland - 1823 - 254 pages
...obstacles to their felicity at once ; and rendered as idle as Prince Hohenlohe's, their celebrated prayer. Ye Gods annihilate but space, and time! And make two lovers happy ! On Note E. This Note commences with a declaration, that in no part of the Rhapsody is a definition... | |
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The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry, and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy... 
