 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...world is dreaming, love ! Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear ! 'T is never too late for delight, my dear ! And the best of all ways To...all the world is sleeping, love, But the sage, his star- watch keeping, love, And I, whose star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping,... | |
 | May Agnes Fleming - 1876 - 460 pages
...virtuously asleep. With his countryman, Tom Moore, he believed that " The best of all ways to lengthen your days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear ; " and all expostulations to combat this vicious custom were futile. She lingers a moment at the door... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...world is dreaming, love ! Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear ! 'T is 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... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes NIGHT hideous ; — auswer him, ye owls. POi'K, The Dunciad. — And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the NIGHT, my dear ! MOORE, Young May Moon. — M'as I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on... | |
 | Charles Dyall - 1877 - 148 pages
...tried it. Nor yet am I sure That Mr. Tom Moore Is correct when he says if we'd add to our years, " The best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dears." My mother, I know, Would very soon show Mr. Moore that his logic excited her laughter, And... | |
 | 1877 - 730 pages
...license, but that I now perceived were the literal embodiments of a national custom. For example, For the best of all ways to lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my boys, instead of being a bacchanalian ballad (as I had imagined) was evidently a melodious encouragement... | |
 | Charles Dyall - 1877 - 144 pages
...retort, I was quite " out of court" If obliged to confess that I never had tried it. Nor yet am I sure " The best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dears." My mother, I know, Would very soon show Mr. Moore that his logic excited her laughter, And... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 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... | |
 | Maurice O'Connor Morris - 1878 - 492 pages
...minutes to ground ; on Saturday loyal crowds at Mallow, plenty of foxes, and sport moderate. XIX. " The best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my love ! " Dancing and Dublin — Bellavilla run — Venison and venerie — Duhallow sport. " Nunc pede... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 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 lengthen our days 10 Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear! Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage,... | |
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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... 
