 | 1876 - 818 páginas
...manifest to all men that it is of God. January 8th, 1876. CPT THE GRAVES OF KINGS, POETS, AND OTHERS. " 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 j Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 páginas
...in the reign of Charles I. ; he outlived the restoration, and 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... | |
 | Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1845 - 666 páginas
...prejudices and inclination of others! His wife's estate ! — Of course, that must go. CHAPTER in. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his iey hand on Kings. Sceptre and crown, Must tumble... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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 ; There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings. THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS. Sceptre... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1847 - 454 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 páginas
...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 state, Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate t Death lavs his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble... | |
 | John Noake - 1848 - 396 páginas
...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 substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 páginas
...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... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1849 - 558 páginas
...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 substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. a Princes and magistrates must... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...by Charles II. Tli thought« are elevated, and the expression highl poetical Death's Final Conquest. ike anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin ; 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. 
