| John Noake - 1848 - 396 páginas
...it a yawning deathlike aspect, which seems to read a bitter moral : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." A few old encaustic tiles, brasses, and scattered bits of stained glass remaining in the windows, make... | |
| Octavius Winslow - 1848 - 170 páginas
...state Are shadows, not substantial tilings ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another still : Early or late They... | |
| William Stirling Maxwell - 1848 - 578 páginas
...solemn salutary lesson, that Works of Bos it Madrid. CHAP. III.— REIGN OF Vurks at I '«J.CJ'iTmcycn " The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not...no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings."1 When called upon to paint the person of our blessed Lord, the gloomy genius of Bos selected... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 páginas
...state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armor against fate, Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And,...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They... | |
| Morning call - 1850 - 608 páginas
...decadence. His motto might be — " The glories of our life and state Are shadows, not substantial things, Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade His James II., which we noticed last year, is now succeeded by the Royal Family of France, when Louis... | |
| Christian poets - 1851 - 470 páginas
...state, Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour agninst fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another still. Early or late They stoop... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 páginas
...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...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield — They tame but one another still. Early or late They... | |
| 1851 - 496 páginas
...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...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another still : Early or late, They... | |
| 1851 - 558 páginas
...; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings ; • Sceptre and crown Mast tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another still. Early or late They stoop... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 350 páginas
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