end of midnight
Actium was a trifle to it . There were mighty men before Agamemnon , and there are mighty men who do not figure in the papers . Raleigh became at once an anaxandron -- a King of Men . The history of his feat spread in ten minutes from one end of midnight London to the other : from the policeman in Waterloo Place to -- everywhere . Never was such a stir ; the fall of Sebastopol -- dear me ! I can remember it , look at the flight of time -- was nothing to it . They would have chaired him , _ fêted _ him , got a band to play him about the place , literally crowned him with laurel .