 | John Hayward - 1829 - 530 páginas
...several years was Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, died May 17th, Anno Salutis 1767, jEtatis 89. Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies ;"* And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. To the memory of Oliver Ellsworth, LL. D., an assistant in the Council, and a judge of the Superior... | |
 | William Jay - 1830 - 302 páginas
...princes with their crowns, and scholars with their volumes. "Why all this toil, the triumph of an hour? What, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's...lies!' And dust to dust concludes her noblest song!" " One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame 1 Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of au hour ? What thoujrh we wade in weal. a, or eoarin faim1, s in the hearth, The crackling fagot flies. Bat And when he argues in favour of the immortality of man from the analogies of nature, with what exquisite... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 páginas
...conviction, he says of the busiest occupations of life, " Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's...lies;' And ' dust to dust' concludes her noblest song." Avarice he calls " The rage canine of dying rich ; Guilt's blunder! and the loudest laugh of hell."... | |
 | Benjamin Frere - 1832 - 570 páginas
...not be a fit inhabitant for this world, if I were to neglect the main chance. CHAP. XIX. THE FUNERAL. What, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, -Earth's...ends in " Here he lies." And "dust to dust" concludes the noblest song. YOUNG. I took some refreshment and an hour's rest in a village, half way between... | |
 | 1833 - 508 páginas
...sleep, in the remaining lines of tHe inscription, viz. : " Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's...And ' dust to dust,' concludes her noblest song." These lines are addressed, in the NIGHT THOUGHTS, to an infidel; and, as they are accompanied by the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1834 - 370 páginas
...Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest...:" And " dust to dust'' concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, tho' in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | R. Green - 1834 - 308 páginas
...1800, 66 years. Smith, Priscilla, 1st Dec. 1821, 60 years. Suggate, Mary, 2nd July, 1824, 75 years. Earth's highest station ends in " here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Smyth, William, son of Richard and Elizabeth Smyth, 13th August, 1811, 20 months ; and Harriet, their... | |
 | 1835 - 434 páginas
...princes with their crowns, and scholars with their volumes. " Why all this toil, the triumph of an hoar1 What, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's...lies ! And dust to dust concludes her noblest song !" " One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk,... | |
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Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust 
