 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
 | Agnes Strickland - 1850 - 466 páginas
...consort of James V. of Scotland, affords a touching exemplification of the oft-repeated fact — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things." The Scotch, in their passionate regrets for the untimely loss of their midsummer Queen of forty days,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 páginas
...than the opening of this song, and its great beauty and strength is in its direct expressiveness : "The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things." The contrast, a power of great efficiency in »11 classes of poetry, and of great beauty •when well... | |
 | 1851 - 558 páginas
...appears very possible, that one or other of us may die this year. — Davies. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. 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 Mast... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 páginas
...Nothing can make her. The devil take her! DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. JAMES SHIULEY, born 1504, died 1666. 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... | |
 | 1851 - 496 páginas
...care not if It be as short as yours. JAMES SHIRLEY. BOKN, 1594; DIED, 1666. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. 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... | |
 | 1852 - 302 páginas
...positions must have been somewhat different from the present acceptation. Well might the old poet say, " The glories of our birth and state are shadows, not substantial things." Distorted shadows some of them have been, and it is well that they at least are not substantial. Ideas... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 páginas
...appears very possible, that one or other of us may die this year. — Davies. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. 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... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1852 - 444 páginas
...first consort of James V. of Scotland, affords a touching exemplification of the oft-repeated fact— " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things." enshrined her memory in such an atmosphere of poetry as to render it difficult to speak of her in that... | |
 | 1852 - 572 páginas
...Desire shall cease and the pitcher be left broken by the shattered wheel of the fountain. 452 453 " 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... | |
 | 1852 - 608 páginas
...suddenly cut off, and his agreeable intercourse, and valuable teachings, are lost to us forever! " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour againit fate ; Death lays his Icy hands on Kings; Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
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