 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Stephen Burroughs - 1835 - 372 Seiten
...the words of Young, in his '?Night Thoughts." " Why aH this toil for triumphs of an hour? " What tho* we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, " Earth's highest station ends in "Here he lies." 1 told him I knew perfectly well his sincere affections for his wife, and his ambition of seeing her... | |
 | Francis Warriner - 1835 - 390 Seiten
...they soon mingle with the living crowd in the busy scenes of life, and he is forgotten even by them. " Earth's highest station ends in ' here he lies,' And dust to dust, concludes the noblest song." The pride of learning, the most brilliant talents, the honors and emoluments of... | |
 | John Collins McCabe - 1835 - 204 Seiten
...together in undying youth ! LINES, ON VISITING THE CHURCHYARD ON RICHMOND HILL. Earth's highest honors end in " here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Youiso. In this lone spot how many mortals sleep ! Life's pleasures and its cares with them are o'er;... | |
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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 
