 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Romeo.) ANNALS. —The short and simple annals of the poor. GRAY — Elegy, Verse 8. ANNIHILATE. — Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. POPE.— Martin Scriblerns, Chapter XI. ANTICIPATION— Well, Sir Anthony, since you desire it, we... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Ibid. Line 71. Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Martinus Scriblcrus on the Art of Sinking in Poetrg. Ch. 11. Of manners gentle, of affections mild... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...thee ; 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 7i. Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinhing in Poetry. Ch. n. Of manners gentle, of affections mild ;... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1871 - 340 pages
...of sailors defying wind and tide: Stephenson's inventions have almost satisfied the modest desire, " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy :" (42) the inventions of Oersted, Morse, and others, have turned us into magicians " who contract... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Literary Collections - 1873 - 382 pages
...request for an infinite series of operations utterly beyond our knowledge. It is the old story : — 4 Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy ! ' The insect asks that the pebble which obstructs its path may be removed ; and it really asks, though... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 pages
...And this is as real as all the rest. It was thought a modest request in the two lovers to say, — "Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy." * But let the reader peruse only two or three metaphysical treatises (one of them being on time), and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1874 - 496 pages
...And this is as real as all the rest. It was thought a modest request in the two lovers to say, — " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy." * But let the reader peruse only two or three metaphysical treatises (one of them being on time), and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...in night : God said, " Let Newton be ! " and all was light. Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton. Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Martinus Scriblerus onthe Arlof Sinhingin Poetry. Ch. II. 1 This line is from a poem entitled To the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Yc godi ! annihilate bat e, and gave away the Empire.9 On this side, then, whichever way you turn aa many of these serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians. (2.) If then, sir, it seems almost... | |
 | Spectre - Gambling - 1875 - 346 pages
...easy. It was not a panic-time, and there was therefore no excuse for such conduct.' CHAPTER XXIV. ' Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.' — POPH. It lay upon my Spectral chamber table, Smaller than many a watch, and moved By tickle atmospheres.... | |
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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... 
