 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 страници
...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 - 1751 - 368 страници
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 страници
...liberty, and to advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over.' The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye ** gods,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 страници
...children of men. Ibid. AMERICA (THE OCEAN'.) BUT let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump ,' this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent , bed; io long all the caulcs which weaken authority by diitance will continue. " Ye gods,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 страници
...unalterable by any human art. ' But let us,' proceeds he, ' suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean re-*mains. You cannot pump this dry ; and...serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.' The second mode of breaking the stubborn spirit of the Americans, by prosecuting it as criminal, he... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 страници
...liberty, and to advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ;• and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 страници
...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... | |
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But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. 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... 
