 | W. Daniell - 1850 - 408 Seiten
...e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave " "A little pomp, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the great and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave." Who was the originator of the scheme alluded... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1851 - 532 Seiten
...seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ! But transient is the smile of fate — A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...PROUD and MIGHTY have Between the cradle and the grave !" — DYER. 8 As a proof of the progress of rational refinement, and the habits of different ages,... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...seen the broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ; A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...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 Seiten
...level lays the lofty brow, — Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state. A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...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... | |
 | 1851 - 496 Seiten
...seen this broken pile .complete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate, A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle mid the grave. And see the livers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, Л eed, Or urge the flying ball i And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...elegiac rivals with such graceful, if chilly, comment as: 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. His poems are most sincere, and can be astonishingly honest. In The Country Walf( — published when... | |
 | John Dyer - 1761 - 200 Seiten
...the vanity of ftate ; But tranfient is the fmile of fate .' A little rule, a little fway, A fun beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And fee the rivers how they run, Thro' woods and meads, in {hade and fun, Sometimes fwift, fometimes... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 Seiten
...Death, pp. 610-13. Other writers emphasized transience ('all passes but God'), the futility of vanity ('A little rule, a little sway, / A sunbeam in a winter's...proud and mighty have / Between the cradle and the grave')301 or the brevity of men's lives compared with their works ('what is my existence in comparison... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 Seiten
...age-old context of human life, a sobering timescape in which A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam on a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.39 The early Romantics also escaped to solitude, but for a different reason. Rousseau and the... | |
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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. 
