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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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Irish Melodies

Thomas Moore - 1849 - 208 pages
...drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To...love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that easement peeping, love. Then awake ! — till...
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The science of life, or How to live and what to live for. By a physician

Science - 1849 - 200 pages
...there might be some wisdom in the attempt to realise the couplet of Moore : in which he says — " The best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night." But finding, as we do, that Nature demands rest in day if we evade it at night, and that in cases of...
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Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century in Six Lectures

David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake, the heavens look bright, my dear ! 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear ! And the best of all ways To...love, But the sage his star-watch keeping, love ; And I, whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. Then awake till rise...
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Irish Melodies

Thomas Moore - 1852 - 212 pages
...drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To...love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. Then awake ! — till...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 39

1852 - 1202 pages
...contracted, of course, late hours, for whilst endeavouring to test the truth of his own poetic theorem — " The best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from night, my love,1' he found a few extra hours in bed in the morning were necessary to compensate for...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 26

1852 - 610 pages
...contracted, of course, late hours, for whilst endeavoring to test the truth of his own poetic theorem — " The best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a. few hours from night, my love." he found a few extra hours in bed in the morning were necessary to compensate for...
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The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels: Third series

Thomas Ingoldsby - 1852 - 394 pages
...companion. Like his friend, Cannon was one of those who gave full assent to the poet's doctrine: " The best of all ways, To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from night," &c. And so resolutely did he at times carry it out in practice, as to be productive of no little...
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Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volume 1

1852 - 318 pages
...his publisher, and as he practised the precept set forth in the lmes, — The best of all ways For to lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my love, he needed a few hours extra sleep in the morning to compensate for those stolen from the night....
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 24

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1853 - 564 pages
...— who do comprehend the occult signification concealed in the apparently frivolous assertion That the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from night ; which, I have no doubt, was practised by the patriarchs. But what on earth are you standing...
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Irish melodies

Thomas Moore - 1854 - 184 pages
...awake I —the heavens look hright, 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...all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star- wateh keeping, love, And I, whose star, Then awake 1 — till rise of sun, my dear, The Sage's...
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