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" Then awake! — the heavens look bright, my dear, Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear... "
The poetical works of Thomas Moore - Page 301
by Thomas Moore - 1829 - 408 pages
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Punch, Volume 127

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1904 - 484 pages
...guides in the matter of physical culture, but MOORE was entirely correct when he sang " The best of nil ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night . . ." I am, Sir, £c. S. CAVENDISH. SIR, — Let me offer your readers a perfectly infallible old-age...
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Dixon's (the Celebrated Buffo Singer) Oddities: A Collection of Nerve ...

George Dixon - 1842 - 134 pages
...awake, the heavens look bright, my dear 'Tis never to late for delight, my dear ; And the best of ail ways to lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night my dear. Now all the world is sleeeping, love, But the sage his star- watch is keeping love ; And I, whose star, more glorious far...
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The oriental rambler, or, The papers of Polyphilus

Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...Then awake !— the heavens look bright, my dear, Tis never too late for delight my dear. And the hest of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night my dear." MOOKE'S IRISH MELODIES. " But now gentlemen and ladies don't delay but marry to-morrow." MRS. INCHBALD'S...
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The Studies of Oxford Vindicated: In a Sermon Preached Before the University ...

Francis Jeune - 1845 - 724 pages
...be required than is at their command at present, it might be and ought to be readily obtained. " If the best of all ways, To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night," — the best of all ways to lengthen your period of study is to steal a few months from that of leisure....
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Brallaghan: Or The Deipnosophists

Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1845 - 362 pages
...upon many night-flowers, the night-flowers see but one moon." Hje cr-trjljtrrnllj. MOORE'S MELODIES. " Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the sage his star-watch keeping, love. ****** Then awake ! 'till rise of sun, my dear, The sage's glass we'll shun, my dear; Or in watching...
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Brallaghan: Or The Deipnosophists

Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1845 - 356 pages
...night-flowers, the night-flowers see but one moon." plagtarism tl)r ffiiaf)trrntl). MOORE'S MELODIES. " Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the sage his star-watch keeping, love. ****** Then awake ! 'till rise of sun, my dear, The sage's glass we'll shun, my dear ; Or in watching...
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Elihu Burritt's Bond of brotherhood, Volume 17, Issues 1-12

Bond of brotherhood - 1866 - 226 pages
...the heavens look bright, my hoys, 'Tis never too late for a fight, my boys, The best of all ways, for to lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night my boys. And they dodgin the Peelers to their heart's content, and keeping the poor men in high excitement,...
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Songs of Ireland and Other Lands: Being a Collection of the Most Popular ...

1847 - 906 pages
...world is dreaming, love, Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear, • Tie never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To...night, my dear. Now all the world is sleeping, love, Bat the sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that...
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The Vauxhall comic song-book. Ed. by J.W. Sharp

Vauxhall comic song-book - 1847 - 238 pages
...my dear, Through the day, at our ease, We'll sleep when we please, And we'll ramble abroad through the night, my dear. Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the bulky his night-watch keeping, love ! And I who wait On this cold, cold slate, While you're at the...
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Hood's Magazine, Volume 10

1848 - 588 pages
...time, the votaries of pleasure following iho maxim of the modern Epicurean endeavoured to prove that The best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear ; " the spirited lessee, Mr. Wardell, contemplates, however, making this merry resort a place of winter...
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