 | Maurice O'Connor Morris - 1878 - 492 oldal
...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... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 oldal
...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 Is to...steal a few hours from the night, my dear. Now all the world-is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I whose star, More glorious... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - 1879 - 572 oldal
...love I 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 I Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star,... | |
 | James Payn - 1879 - 346 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 350 oldal
...If you have little or none you must make it. Tom Moore, the Irish poet, we believe, once sang :— " The best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night !" This is true; but the poet, and many more like him, made a mistake, and stole the hours from the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 oldal
...beautiful child, "standing upon tip-toes, and a trefoil, or three-coloured grass, in her hand." New all the world is sleeping, love But the Sage, his...star, More glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peepinn- love Then awake !—till rise of sun, my dear I he Sage's glass we'll shun, my dear, Or, in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 oldal
...LOVE. Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear ! T is never too late for delight, my dear ! PATRA." ACT II. SC. a. EXOIURBUS. The barge she ! Yemif .Чау .Weaa. MoOK E. Lovers' hours are long, though seeming short. Voua art Aitotili. SHAKESPEARE... | |
 | James Miller - 1880 - 334 oldal
...power save in the fancy of the fool, or in the wit of the humorist. The one may tell us that — " The best of all ways to lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night." But we know that such theft deceives itself, is soon detected, and comes to a bad end. Or again : "... | |
 | Francis Chilton Young - 1881 - 842 oldal
...this, that, and the other — MAKE time. The genial Irish lyric poet, Tom Moore, has told us that " The best of all ways to lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from night ; " and if the man who wants to make time would make it in this manner, stealing the hours from... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 oldal
...'Tia never too late for delight, my dear, And the beat of all wayg To lengthen our days Is to ateal a few hours from the night, my dear. Now all the world IB sleeping, love, But the Sage, hia star-watch keeping, love, And I whose star, More glorious far,... | |
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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. 
