 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 strani
...Mifery. § Behold a fcene of mifery and woe ! Here Argus foon might weep himfe'f quite blind, £v'n tbo' he had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred...Time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, tvhich the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in -the ninth chapter, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 strani
...that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers : Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time^ And makes tins lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and (hall again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1753 - 358 strani
...that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers. Te Gods ! annihilate but fpace and time, ThePERiPHRAsis, which the moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof...the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. And make iwe lo•vers happy. To the fame clafs of the magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 strani
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 406 strani
...are fo excellently modern, that we have yet HO name for them. In defcribing a country profpeft, 3. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus,...the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. I'd call them mountains, but can't call them fb, For fear to wrong them with a name too low; While... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 436 strani
...requeft of two abfent lovers: Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Tinu, And make two lovers happy. z. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus,...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and mall again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 352 strani
...of two abferst i "* lovers i .3VGWf ! annihilate but fpace and time* And make titfo lovers happy. 3. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus , whereof we have given examples in the ninth chap-^ ter, and (hall again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs of the magnifying may be referred the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 320 strani
...requeft of two abfent lovers ; Ye gods ! annihilate but fpace and time, And make two lovers "happy. 3. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus, whereof we have given exv amples in the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. ' »: .1 To the fame clafs of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 strani
...Mifery. * " Behold a fcene of mifery and woe ! " Here Argus foon might weep himfelf quite blind, " Ev'n tho' he had Briareus' hundred hands " To wipe thofe...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and mail again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs- of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 strani
...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... | |
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! 
