 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...sun | sets | at right | descensions, | and makes j but winter and therefore | it cannot | be long j before | we lie down in darkness, | and have | our...brother of death | daily | haunts us | with dying | memento's, and time that grows old | in it self, | bids us | hope | no long duration : diutumity... | |
 | Lois Parkinson Zamora - Literary Collections - 1989 - 254 pages
...which the title comes serves as epigraph to the novel, and reads, in part: ". . . our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,...our light in ashes; since the brother of death daily hunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity... | |
 | Victor J. Ramraj - Literary Collections - 1994 - 534 pages
...Ruins of a Great House though our longest sun sets at right declensions and makes but winter arches, it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes . . . BROWNE: Um Burial Stones only, the disjecta membra of this Great House, Whose moth-like girls... | |
 | Howard Marchitello - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 262 pages
...of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,...therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse, and have our light in ashes. Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's,... | |
 | Ilan Stavans - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 350 pages
...destruction in loving, of love. Styron uses as an epigraph to his work a quotation by Sir Thomas Browne: "... and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying momentos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration— divinity is a dream and... | |
 | Tony Kushner - Drama - 2000 - 340 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right decensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's, and time that grows old it self, bids us hope no long duration: Diuturnity is a dream and... | |
 | Patricia Ismond - Literary Collections - 2001 - 324 pages
...of thy friend's". ' An epigraph taken from Sir Thomas Browne accentuates his focus in the same poem: "it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes" ("Urn Burial"). He takes his cue from Traherne's "The corn was orient and immortal wheat", in his poem... | |
 | Frances Ilmberger, Alan Robinson - Communication, International - 2002 - 206 pages
...epigraph, moreover (from Thomas Browne's Urn Burial), spells out the theme of mutability and decay : ". . . it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes . . ."(19). The speaker's historical perspective is taken back further to men like Hawkins, Raleigh,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Literary Collections - 2003 - 180 pages
...darkness, and have our ltght in ashes; sinee the brother of death daily haums us with dving mememoes, and time, that grows old itself, bids us hope no long duration, diutumity is a dream and tolly of espeetation. Darkness and light divide the eourse of time, and oblivion... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,...therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse, and have our lights in ashes. Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's,... | |
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... daily haunts us with dying mementos and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. 
