 | Thomas Moore - 1872 - 660 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...my dear. Now all the world is sleeping, love, But th 3 Sage, hia star- watch keeping, love, And I whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that... | |
 | 1872 - 552 pages
...gleaming, love, How sweet to rove 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 houn from the night, my dear ! Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the sage, his star- watch keeping,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...dear ! And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear I nd from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, lore, And I, whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. Then awake... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 pages
...who know the use of gas and candlelight. Another backs Tom Moore as speaking truly when he said that the best of all ways to lengthen our days is to steal a few hours from the night ; only we must steal for a good purpose, not for pleasure or dissipation, else we are losers instead... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1874 - 160 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. * " Steals silently to... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh 1 who would inhabit This bleak world alone ? Ibid. And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear ! The Young May Moon. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses... | |
 | 1898 - 1016 pages
...the MEDICAL BBIEC.] The Brief— Group — Atypical Fever. BY 8. HERBERT BRITTON, MD, Adelaide, O. "And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, My dear." That is the way it goes, when a doctor gets the BRIEF and has not the time to read it. I generally... | |
 | James Burnley - 1875 - 416 pages
...of the desires of your heart will be fulfilled." A DESERTED PEOMENADE. j]OM MOORE has told us that " the best of all ways to lengthen our days is to steal a few hours from the night ;" and if this be true I ought to be able to look the future in the face with some confidence, for... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - 1875 - 354 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," etc. And so resolutely did he carry it out in practice when the opportunity offered, as at... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - 1875 - 350 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,' 7 etc. And so resolutely did he carry it out in practice when the opportunity offered, as at... | |
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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... 
