 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 páginas
...the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 páginas
...the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 páginas
...sunshine of the breast is something more than a metaphor. " A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave." Let the teacher, who often has too much of the two first, take care to get his portion of the last.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam Was prankt see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and son, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam t the see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade arid sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | 1844 - 498 páginas
...the vanity of state j But transient is th« smile of fate. A little rule, л little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day. Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave."— DTER. To how many solemn reflections are such scenes as that here represented calculated to give rise... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 páginas
...the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 páginas
...the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ; A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swiftly, sometimes... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 páginas
...this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state. A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave."» We think with pleasure how the spot, once resounding with the histories of the great, is now consecrated... | |
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But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. 
