 | 1863 - 478 páginas
...talents were enlisted in the cause of virtue ; and they well agree with the blameless life he led.] THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 páginas
...of the garden wither as the grass. Old winter strips the giant oak, as well as the sapling willow. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and erowu Must tumble... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 páginas
...hard and full, That crack'd the nuts at once, But with them crack'd his skull. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must humble... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 350 páginas
...which they say touched even the thoughtless bosom of Charles the Second : — DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Lewis Borrett White - 1864 - 232 páginas
...the poetical vigour of the first three, and are not worth printing here. THE VANITY OF VAIN GLORY. THE glories of our birth 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... | |
 | 1864 - 596 páginas
...wake from death's dark night, To share the glory that succeeds. LM 625. SBIRLET. Man's Mortality. i THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. a Princes and magistrates must... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 páginas
...patience will succeed where force fails. Necessity is the mother of invention. XXIX. DEATH THE LEVELLER. The glories of our birth 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... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 páginas
...Napoleon, have been degraded from their honours, and have trod the common way down to dusty death. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays hie icy hand on kings; Sceptre and crown must tumble down,... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 páginas
...man." Death levels sceptres and spades together. He spares none. He turns all secular glory into ashes. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hand on kings. We shall not die an hour the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 páginas
...reign of Charles II., and died after the Fw- London. This is a song of his : — DEATH'S TRIUMPHS. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
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THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 
