| Health - 1830 - 336 páginas
...FINAL CONQUEST, in the hopes of a joyful resurrection, with joy and gladness : The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; 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... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 332 páginas
...and happy as in the most prosperous state of life ; for, in that fine strain set by Orlando Gibbons, The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. I am sufficiently blessed in my earthly condition, having a wife as dutiful as Kenna, and a place of... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 330 páginas
...and happy as in the most prosperous state of life; for, in that fine strain set by Orlando Gibbons, The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. I am sufficiently blessed in my earthly condition, having a wife as dutiful as Kenna, and a place of... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1831 - 372 páginas
...ON THE DEATH OF A KING. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things j There is no armour against fate — DEATH lays his icy hand on KINGS." SHIRLEY. WE have shown in the last chapter that "old Morley" died at the age of eighty-seven, in his... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 páginas
...disown ; Yields to His pleasure, and forgets The choice was not his own. DEATH'S CONQUEST. [PEECY.] THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...things ; There is no armour against fate, Death lays bis icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...warmest welcome at an inn. JAMES SHIRLEY. {From The Contention of Ajax and Ulyssti.] DEATH THE LEVELLER. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against Fate — Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in... | |
| 1833 - 388 páginas
...indeed, can never be too often quoted, or read with diminished admiration. rr DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. Tbo glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial...hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap... | |
| Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 528 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...hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. "Some men with swords may reap... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 414 páginas
...Ignotique longa nocte." Shirley strikingly describes the transitory nature of earthly grandeur : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...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 - 586 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...hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap... | |
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