...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...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. SHIRLEY. THE ruined city of El Kab was our next stoppage, near which are some curious grottos, containing...

...Victor of Agincourt, had departed, and even in departing had discovered that "There is no armor against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." The Earl of Bedford, the wise regent, had succeeded to the sway of England, and so much of France as...

...Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour against fate : Deal- li lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Intimately connected with Birkland and its former sports, and perhaps more interesting from the fact...

...(metonymic) symbols. Such are to be found in a poem by James Shirley (quoted by Chapman, 1973:78): "Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Here the expressions "sceptre" and "crown" signify "kings", the bearers of these regalia, and "the...

...epodi Cittadino Mastai, bevi un bicchier. James Shirley, The Levelling Dust Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Die Söhne Haruns Seit ich Bagdads Thron bestiegen, bin von Feinden ich umgeben....

...not substantial things: There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hands on kings: Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.46 The concluding lines refer to the inevitability of death: The garlands wither on your brow,...

...state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand IONS (1. 1—8) 2 They stoop to fate. And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives,...

...diem — the ruler and the ruled, all gone; in the words of the Elizabethan dramatist, James Shirley: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down. And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade Following the chemical analysis of these Mesoamerican plants, their use or abuse became popular among...

...the ruled, all gone; in the words of the Elizabethan dramaäst, James Shirley: Sceptre and crown Musi tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade Following the chemical analysis of these Mesoamerican plants, their use or abuse became popular among...

...ruler and the ruled, all gone; in the words of the Elizabethan dramatist, ; James Shirley: - •=? Sceptre and crown Must tumble down. And in the dust be equal mode With the poor crooked scythe and spade Following the chemical analysis of these Mesoamerican plants,...