 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 544 pages
...pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches — and therefore it cannot...since the brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and Time — that grows old in itself — bids us, hope of no long duration : diuturnity... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 346 pages
...pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions and makes but winter arches, and, therefore, it cannot...since the brother' of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and 1 Injustice. * See Shakspere's " Troilus and Cressida." 8 That is, bribed, bought off.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - American literature - 1900 - 564 pages
...pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...mementos, and time, that grows old itself, bids us to hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation." — Urn Burial. "Thus there... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - American literature - 1900 - 566 pages
...the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old itself, bids us to hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation." — Urn Burial. "Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity: besides that written one... | |
 | Lois Parkinson Zamora - Literary Collections - 1989 - 254 pages
...serves as epigraph to the novel, and reads, in part: ". . . our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...our light in ashes; since the brother of death daily hunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity... | |
 | Victor J. Ramraj - Literary Collections - 1994 - 534 pages
...Ruins of a Great House though our longest sun sets at right declensions and makes but winter arches, it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes . . . BROWNE: Um Burial Stones only, the disjecta membra of this Great House, Whose moth-like girls... | |
 | Howard Marchitello - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 262 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse, and have our light in ashes. Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's,... | |
 | Ilan Stavans - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 350 pages
...destruction in loving, of love. Styron uses as an epigraph to his work a quotation by Sir Thomas Browne: "... and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying momentos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration— divinity is a dream and... | |
 | Tony Kushner - Drama - 2000 - 340 pages
...Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right decensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot...Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying memento's, and time that grows old it self, bids us hope no long duration: Diuturnity is a dream and... | |
 | Patricia Ismond - Literary Collections - 2001 - 324 pages
...of thy friend's". ' An epigraph taken from Sir Thomas Browne accentuates his focus in the same poem: "it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes" ("Urn Burial"). He takes his cue from Traherne's "The corn was orient and immortal wheat", in his poem... | |
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... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes... 
