 | 1846 - 604 pagina’s
...familiar, side hy side consume." " The glories of our hirlh and state Are shadows, not suhstantial things. There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumhle down, And in the dust he equal made With lhe poor crooked scythe and spade." But if a man die,... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1846 - 402 pagina’s
...kind of Dirge to the foregoing plece. It is said to have been a favourite song with K. Charles 1I. Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings : THE glorics of our birth and state Scepter and crown • And in the dust be equal... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pagina’s
...DEATH. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial thing« : There is no armor against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre...scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the ñeld, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; Bnt their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame... | |
 | 1847 - 556 pagina’s
...palace of the great, The cabin of the poor." Mr. Howell has compared Shirley's quaint verse, — " Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown...And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scithe and spade." " In they go, Beggar and banker, porter, gentleman, The cinder-wench and white-handed... | |
 | John Noake - 1848 - 396 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - 1848 - 578 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 570 pagina’s
...Shirley, alluding to the inevitable process of death and time, exclaimed — Sceptre and crown shall tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. But lo, the madness of a few weeks hath done the work of centuries, and throneless kings and powerless... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1849 - 260 pagina’s
...place. Of Kings, 883 arrived in these realms, while 789 were deposed by the grim monarch, before whom " Sceptre and crown must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." COMMON SURNAMES. and moral qualities are exceedingly numerous, only three — Browne, Mitchell, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pagina’s
...thought« are elevated, and the expression highl poetical Death's Final Conquest. The glories of our birth p false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or...to rule the state : To compass this, the triple bon hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 608 pagina’s
...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... | |
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THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 
