 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...tho' he had Briareus hundred hands To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers : Ye Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time,...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...requeft of two abfent lovers : Te Gods ! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. 1. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus^...whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pages
...tbo' he 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 ninth chapter, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...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 pages
...that modeft requeft of two abfent lovers. Te Gods ! annihilate but fpace and time, ThePERiPHRAsis, which the moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. And make iwe lo•vers happy. To the fame clafs of the magnifying may be... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 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 - 1757 - 344 pages
...thd' he 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...have given examples • in the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. To the fame clafs of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 406 pages
...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,...whereof we have given examples in 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 436 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! 
