 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.  The Living Age - Página 3061885Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1820 - 190 páginas
...; — a merry note ! While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. SHAKSPEARB. • THE VANITY OF GREATNESS. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things j There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings i Sceptre and crown, Must tumble... | |
 | 1844 - 640 páginas
...fine stanzas, which are recorded to have been his favourites in the Contention of Ajaxand Ulysses. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1823 - 524 páginas
...kind of Dirge to the foregoing piece. It is said to have beea a favourite Song with K.. Charles II. 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 : Scepter and crown 5 Must tumble... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 páginas
...expand, thy branches play, And bloom forever in the immortal lay. FROM PERCY'S 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 : Scepter and crown Must tumble... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 330 páginas
...and happy as in the most prosperous state of life; for, in that fine strain set by Orlando Gibbons, The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. I am sufficiently blessed in my earthly condition, having a wife as dutiful as Kenna, and a place of... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 332 páginas
...and happy as in the most prosperous state of life ; for, in that fine strain set by Orlando Gibbons, The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. I am sufficiently blessed in my earthly condition, having a wife as dutiful as Kenna, and a place of... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 páginas
...disown ; Yields to His 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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...warmest welcome at an inn. JAMES SHIRLEY. {From The Contention of Ajax and Ulyssti.] DEATH THE LEVELLER. 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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 páginas
...Ignotique longa nocte." Shirley strikingly describes the transitory nature of earthly grandeur : — " 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." What, then, is the inference... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 páginas
...republished with notes, by Mr. Gi fibril and the Rev. Alexander Dyee. SHIRLEY. DEATH'S FtNAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his iey hands on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
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