 The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.  The English Poets - Página 218editado por - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Health - 1830 - 336 páginas
...we may meet DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST, in the hopes of a joyful resurrection, with joy and gladness : The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | 1833 - 388 páginas
...often quoted, or read with diminished admiration. rr DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. Tbo glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; Hut their strong nerves at last muet yield ; They tame but one another still: Early or late They... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 páginas
...Butler's, being published in his Posthumous 1'aeiia. There is in them a grand and touching solemnity, The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings'; Scepter and crown Muat tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 534 páginas
...DIOMEDES, MENELAUS, THERSANDER, NESTOR, and ULYSSES, following the hearse, as going to the temple. Cal. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made fPtth the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 540 páginas
...UIOMEDES, MENKI.AUS, THERSANDER, NESTOR, and ULYSSES, ' following the hearse, as going to the temple. Cal. The glories of our blood and state . Are shadows,...no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on Icings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made fFtth the poor crooked scythe... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 páginas
...Shirley strikingly describes the transitory nature of earthly grandeur : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...against fate : Death lays his icy hand on kings." What, then, is the inference ? — That happiness does not exist ; or, as Ovid says, — . " Dicique... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 páginas
...as this noble dirge has been quoted, it must not be omitted here : — ' The glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 páginas
...published in 167j. without any name.] DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. JAMES SHIRLEY. Born 1596— Died 1666. The glories of our blood* and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands pn kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 páginas
...Purpose. " It is affirmed of Charles II. that he was mightily delighted with these beautiful stanzas, The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate , Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
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