 | British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...to come: to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven : " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last." ' For my own part, I look upon these propositions as words that have no ideas annexed to them; and... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...to come : to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. For my own part, I look upon these propositions as words that have no ideas annexed to them ; and think... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...to come ; to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal NOW does always last. For my own part, I look upon these propositions as words that have no ideas annexed to them ; and think... | |
 | James Beresford - English wit and humor - 1806 - 384 pages
...sap,) to your leisure, which they carry on for at least two hours, in almost total silence : — " Nothing there is to come, and nothing past; But an eternal Now does ever last!" — Cowley. During the last hour, they alternately tantalize and torment you, by seeming,... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...(by sap,) to your leisure, which they carry on for at least two hours, in almost total silence: — " Nothing there is to come, and nothing past; But an eternal Now does ever last!" During the last hour, they alternately tantalise and torment you, by seeming;, (but only... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 332 pages
...sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion doth swift time divide ; 300 Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. There sits th' Almighty, First of all, and End ; Whom nothing but himself can comprehend; Who with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 370 pages
...come : to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven : " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last." ' For my own part, I look upon these propositions as words that have no ideas annexed to them : and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1819 - 298 pages
...to come: to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes, in his description of heaven ; Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal NOW does always last. For my own part, I look upon these propositions as words that have no ideas annexed to them ; and think... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...thing till all men douht it ; And write ahout it, Goddess, and ahout itf . 4 Example " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.*" Anali/sis. What an insatiahle thirst hath this hastard philosophy for ahsurdity and contradiction !... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...smooth sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion doth swift time divide ; Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. There sits the' Almighty, First of all, and End ; Whom nothing but himself can comprehend ; Who with... | |
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal NOW does always last. 
