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The Retrospective Review - Page 90
1820
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood ; and the recorded names contain not one living century. The number of the...surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? 2 Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must...
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The Harvard Monthly, Volumes 27-28

1899 - 482 pages
...portrait corresponds to the sitter. He was always strangely impressed with the fleetingness of things. "The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?" At fifty-three, when he wrote Urn Burial, he had attained, in temperament, to all the ripeness of old...
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History of English Literature: By H.A. Taine, Translated by H. Van ..., Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1885 - 1108 pages
...record of man. Twenty-seren names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded Dimes ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedrth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, ind who knows when was the...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volumes 1-2

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...in the record of man. Twentyseven names make up the first story before the Flood; and the recorded summer's day, — •I, whose sullen care. dea<l long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasselh the day, and who knows when...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 pages
...register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The...was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetie, which scarce stands one moment." 79. Shirley, Death's Final Conquest : — The glories...
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The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 pages
...register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long excecdeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day ; and who knows when was the...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story and the recorded ch of him that three tall Germans would in vain have attempted to reach to equlnox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. Aиd since Itath...
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living Century. The...surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the ^Equinox. Euery houre addes unto that current Arithmetique, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: English Literature in Eight Chapters

Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the reported names ever since contain not one living century. The...surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox 1 Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must...
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Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects

John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...in the record of man. Twentyseven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The...exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpassed! the day, and who knows when was the equinox 1 Every hour adds unto that current arithmetick,...
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