 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...sail, Or all the toil is lost. Cowper. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST.1 THE glories of our blood and state2 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1846 - 402 pàgines
...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 made With the poor... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pàgines
...seemed, without conceit, to be Both one and two in our identity. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. — Shirley. 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. THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS. Sceptre and crown... | |
 | 1744 - 596 pàgines
...own imperfections, will be the least disposed to pass judgment on his fellows. fioette Selections.. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, ndt substantial things ; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand oil kmgs ; Sceptre... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pàgines
...dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again. -Ibid. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and...substantial things ; There is no armour against fate t Death lavs his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1847 - 454 pàgines
...sixteen months old. Kings and conquerors are but mortal, like their subjects or their slaves : — The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; 6 There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings : All heads mast come To the... | |
 | John Noake - 1848 - 396 pàgines
...visor being up, imparts to it a yawning deathlike aspect, which seems to read a bitter moral : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...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... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - 1848 - 580 pàgines
...salutary lesson, that Works of Bog at Madrid. Work* at J'uvncia. JCVermeyen " 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."1 When called upon to paint the person of our blessed Lord, the gloomy genius of Bos... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1849 - 558 pàgines
...Till heaven with hallelujahs ring. LM 0 U 0 . J- SHIRLEY altered. Transitoriness of earthly Honors. i THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. a Princes and magistrates must fall, And in the dust be equal made, The high and mighty with the small,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pàgines
...and his wife died, of grief, or exposure, the day after the great fire in London. DEATH'S CONCIUEST. 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 tumble down, And, in... | |
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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. 
