 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 páginas
...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; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor, crooked scythe and... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 páginas
...Why, that I cannot tell," said he ; " But 'twas a famous victory." SOUTHEY. THE VANITY OF GREATNESS. 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... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 578 páginas
...sovereign word; Restore thy trust ; a glorious form Shall then arise to meet the Lord. WATTS 1088. LE 1. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There ia no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. 2. Princes and mngistrates must... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 934 páginas
...sovereign word ; Restore thy trust ; a glorious form Shall then arise to meet the Lord. WATTS. 1088. LM 1. 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. 2. Princes and magistrates must... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 páginas
...bora 1594, dicd 1666. Set for two voices by EDWAED COLEXAN. See Biteon's " English Songs," vol iii, 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 páginas
...kind of Dirge to the foregoiug piece. It is said to have been a favourite Song with K. Charles II. 1 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 Must tumble down,... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1850 - 442 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,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 páginas
...multitude that throngs the world to-day, to-morrow disappear as the footstep on the shore." Mosaics. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1860 - 578 páginas
...kind of dirge to the foregoing piece. It is said to have been 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... | |
 | 1861 - 356 páginas
...Yorao. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death. POPE. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. SHIRLEY. Give me the mind that, bent on highest aim, Deems virtue's rugged path sole path to fame ;... | |
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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. 
