 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers : Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, tvhich the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in -the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 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 prayer ; — but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...had Priareus' hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe hundred eyes." And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe hundred eyes." And that modeft requeft of two abfent 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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 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 prayer; but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...Briareus' hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes || 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...Briareus" hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes ||— 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 - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. l* Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two. lovers happy . " — was a pious and passionate prayer ; — but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes... | |
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! 
