 | Thomas Moore - 1851 - 918 pages
...When the drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my de.ir, 'Tie never too late for delight, my dear, And the best...dear ! Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sago, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star, More glorious f:ir, Is the eye from that casement... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 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... | |
 | Biography - 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.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 790 pages
...grove,a When the drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake 1 — the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tie never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, IB to steal a few hours from the night, my dear ! collection, а poem translated from thu Irish, by... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1855 - 810 pages
...was as singularly melancholy and unfortunate as his lift had been amiable, honourable, and exemplary. And the best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear t Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, And I, whose star,... | |
 | William Beamont - 1856 - 346 pages
...upon me that this was the cause of the noise and the blaze. If the song is true that in the West " The best of all ways, To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night," the best way to multiply our years must be to come to the East, for I shall at least have seen two... | |
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THE YOUNG MAY MOON. THE young May moon is beaming, love, The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love, How sweet to rove Through Morna's grove,* When the drowsy world is dreaming, love ! Then awake ! — the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late... 
