 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 páginas
...hard and full, That crack'd the nuts at once, But with them crack'd his skull. 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 ; Sceptre and crown Must humble... | |
 | 1864 - 596 páginas
...wake from death's dark night, To share the glory that succeeds. LM 625. SBIRLET. Man's Mortality. i 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. a Princes and magistrates must... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 340 páginas
...which they say touched even the thoughtless bosom of Charles the Second : — 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 hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 páginas
...patience will succeed where force fails. Necessity is the mother of invention. XXIX. DEATH THE LEVELLER. 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 — Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Lewis Borrett White - 1864 - 232 páginas
...the poetical vigour of the first three, and are not worth printing here. THE VANITY OF VAIN GLORY. 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. Sceptre and crown must tumble... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 350 páginas
...which they say touched even the thoughtless bosom of Charles the Second : — 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 hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Constance Caroline W. Naden - 1883 - 92 páginas
...recognise the sublime fact that life and death are only changes of condition, not of essence — that ' the glories of our birth and state are shadows, not substantial things.' — RL - ' We must also admit that there is a much wider interval in mental power between one of the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1883 - 64 páginas
...and as the commander under whom he served in the Army of the Cumberland. An old English poet says : The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armor ugaiiist fate ; Death lays his ley hand ou kings; Scepter and crown Must tumble dowu... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 páginas
...Napoleon, have been degraded from their honours, and have trod the common way down to dusty death. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays hie icy hand on kings; Sceptre and crown must tumble down,... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 páginas
...edge. His taste was good, and ho liked good books. If it be true that the fine lines of Shirley,— " 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... | |
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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. 
