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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... "
Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a collection of ... - Page 273
by Renfrew county - 1821
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Punch, Volume 38

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1800 - 568 pages
...LORD PALHERSTON, who quoted TDK MOORE'S allegation, VOL. xxxix. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. that the best of all ways to lengthen our days is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear, and who is as gay and full of work at four in the morning as at eight in the evening. The PREMIER is...
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Punch, Volume 125

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1903 - 516 pages
...articles for the Quarterly Ecvicic. In other words, he is driven to apply the maxim of the poet : — " The best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the uight, my dear." Thus, on returning to his self-contained flat after a late sitting of the House, Mr....
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Punch, Volume 127

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1904 - 484 pages
...guides in the matter of physical culture, but MOORE was entirely correct when he sang " The best of nil ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night . . ." I am, Sir, £c. S. CAVENDISH. SIR, — Let me offer your readers a perfectly infallible old-age...
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Dixon's (the Celebrated Buffo Singer) Oddities: A Collection of Nerve ...

George Dixon - 1842 - 134 pages
...awake, the heavens look bright, my dear 'Tis never to late for delight, my dear ; And the best of ail ways to lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night my dear. Now all the world is sleeeping, love, But the sage his star- watch is keeping love ; And I, whose star, more glorious far...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pages
...When the drowsy world is dreaming, love 1 Then awake! — the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all...days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear! collection, a poem translated from the Irish, by the late John Brown, one of my earliest college companions...
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The oriental rambler, or, The papers of Polyphilus

Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...Then awake !— the heavens look bright, 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 hours from the night my dear." MOOKE'S IRISH MELODIES. " But now gentlemen and ladies don't delay but marry to-morrow." MRS. INCHBALD'S...
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The Studies of Oxford Vindicated: In a Sermon Preached Before the University ...

Francis Jeune - Bible - 1845 - 724 pages
...be required than is at their command at present, it might be and ought to be readily obtained. " If the best of all ways, To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night," — the best of all ways to lengthen your period of study is to steal a few months from that of leisure....
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Brallaghan: Or The Deipnosophists

Edward Vaughan Kenealy - English literature - 1845 - 362 pages
...upon many night-flowers, the night-flowers see but one moon." Hje cr-trjljtrrnllj. MOORE'S MELODIES. " Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the sage his star-watch keeping, love. ****** Then awake ! 'till rise of sun, my dear, The sage's glass we'll shun, my dear; Or in watching...
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Brallaghan: Or The Deipnosophists

Edward Vaughan Kenealy - English literature - 1845 - 356 pages
...night-flowers, the night-flowers see but one moon." plagtarism tl)r ffiiaf)trrntl). MOORE'S MELODIES. " Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the sage his star-watch keeping, love. ****** Then awake ! 'till rise of sun, my dear, The sage's glass we'll shun, my dear ; Or in watching...
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Elihu Burritt's Bond of brotherhood, Volume 17, Issues 1-12

Bond of brotherhood - 1866 - 226 pages
...the heavens look bright, my hoys, 'Tis never too late for a fight, my boys, The best of all ways, for to lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night my boys. And they dodgin the Peelers to their heart's content, and keeping the poor men in high excitement,...
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