 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...While, over aud auou, there lalle [то 1780. Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, \ witli the vanity of state ; But transient if the smile of fate I A little rule a little sway, A sunbeam... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 páginas
...and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 páginas
...and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile eomplete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little... | |
 | 1839 - 894 páginas
...and weeds ; While ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
 | 1840 - 372 páginas
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldering walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 páginas
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there fall Hnge heaps of hoary, mouldered wall. Yet time has seen — that lifts the low. And level lays the lofty brow...vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
 | William Goodman - 1843 - 342 páginas
...painting of wonderful variety." Of many of these old buildings we may say : "Time, which brings the mighty low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this...broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state." In which we may still observe : " And all the hinder parts, that few could spy, Were ruinous and old,... | |
 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 páginas
...Rutherglen. * Tbe site of Queen-Street. CHAPTER II. REMARKABLE OLD EDIFICES FORMERLY EXTANT. ' Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow; Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state." PRIOR. To a reflecting mind it is something more than merely amusing to mark the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, . . . ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...weeds j While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall«. Yet time ha« seen, lect, where success would have been without applause,...unhappy mortals is the «Titer of dictionaries ; whom ma ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
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A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. 
