 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...lost, which never will renew. While we too far the pleasing path pursue, Surveying nature. DRYDEN. Then down the precipice of time it goes, And sinks in minutes which in ages rose. DRYDEN. For sepulchres themselves must crumbling fiB In time's abyss, the common grave of alL DRYDEN.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...lost, which never will renew, While we too far the pleasing path pursue, Surveying nature. DRYDEN. Then down the precipice of time it goes, And sinks in minutes which in ages rose. DRYDEN. For sepulchres themselves must crumbling fall In time's abyss, the common grave of all. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 páginas
...first breathing free, It moves again for ease and luxury ; Till, swelling by degrees, it has possessed The greater space, and now crowds up the rest. When,...it goes, And sinks in minutes, which in ages rose. Dryden, Conquest of Granada, Ft. II. act i. sc. i. ENGLAND. ILLUSTRIOUS England, ancient seat of kings,... | |
 | Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - 1891 - 514 páginas
...Years; ' Till grown more strong, it thrusts and stretches out, And elbows all the Kingdoms round about; Then down the Precipice of Time it goes, And sinks in Minutes which in Ages rose. DECEMBER. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee, All Chance, Direction which thou can'st not see,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...lost, which never will renew, While we too far the pleasing path pursue, Surveying nature. DRYDE.V Then down the precipice of time it goes, And sinks in minutes which in ages rose. DRYDES. For sepulchres themselves must crumbling fall In time's abyss, the common grave of all. DEYWBN.... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 436 páginas
...luxury ; Till swelling by degrees it has possest The greater space, and now crowds up the rest. 114 When from behind there starts some petty state, And...time it goes, And sinks in minutes, which in ages rose.1 No. 13. [STEELE. From Saturday, May 7, to Tuesday, May 10, 1709. From my own Apartment, May... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 páginas
...first breathing free, It moves again for ease and luxury ; Till, swelling by degree, it has possessed The greater space, and now crowds up the rest ; When,...it goes, And sinks in minutes, which in ages rose." 1. 22. [promulgated the laws. See p. 30, 1. 31 fg. c. D. p.] 1. 26. Absalom and Achitophel. See p.... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 582 páginas
...out, And eibows all the kingdoms round about: The place thus made for its first breathing free, 10 It moves again for ease and luxury; Till, swelling...metals breed; Tracing the sun, who seems to steal away, 20 That, miser-like, he might alone survey The wealth which he in western mines did lay: Not all that... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 páginas
...and demolition, she quoted from memory two lines in The Conquest of Granada on the fate of empire: Then down the precipice of time it goes, And sinks in Minutes, which in Ages rose. Dryden was still to write another tragedy in rhyme — Aureng-zebe. It is pitched in a lower key; the... | |
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A watchful fate o'ersees its tender years: Till, grown more strong, it thrusts and stretches out, And elbows all the kingdoms round about: The place thus made for its first breathing free, It moves again for ease and luxury; Till, swelling by degrees,... 
