| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 Seiten
...pleasure, and forgets The choice was not his own. DEATH'S CONQUEST. [PEECY.] THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial 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... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 Seiten
...fate, Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumhle down, And, in the dust, he equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield... | |
| 1833 - 388 Seiten
...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...crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; Hut their strong nerves at last muet yield... | |
| 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 Seiten
...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...crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield;... | |
| Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 528 Seiten
...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...crooked scythe and spade. "Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield... | |
| Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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