 | John Noake - 1848 - 396 páginas
...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...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." A few old encaustic tiles, brasses, and scattered bits of stained glass remaining in the windows, make... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - 1848 - 578 páginas
...solemn salutary lesson, that Works of Bos it Madrid. CHAP. III.— REIGN OF Vurks at I '«J.CJ'iTmcycn " The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not...no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings."1 When called upon to paint the person of our blessed Lord, the gloomy genius of Bos selected... | |
 | 1848 - 570 páginas
...Shirley, alluding to the inevitable process of death and time, exclaimed — Sceptre and crown shall tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. But lo, the madness of a few weeks hath done the work of centuries, and throneless kings and powerless... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1849 - 260 páginas
...place. Of Kings, 883 arrived in these realms, while 789 were deposed by the grim monarch, before whom " Sceptre and crown must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." COMMON SURNAMES. and moral qualities are exceedingly numerous, only three — Browne, Mitchell, and... | |
 | 1879 - 674 páginas
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 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...thought« are elevated, and the expression highl poetical Death's Final Conquest. The glories of our birth p false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or...to rule the state : To compass this, the triple bon hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 608 páginas
...decadence. His motto might be — " The glories of our life and state Are shadows, not substantial things, Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade His James II., which we noticed last year, is now succeeded by the Royal Family of France, when Louis... | |
 | 1879 - 566 páginas
...i? early as 1588, would look like a school or colleg; version of Shirley's well-known stanza : — " Sceptre and crown .Must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Did Shirley borrow the idea from this couplet c did both he and the writer of Carmina Proverbial* derive... | |
 | 1850 - 392 páginas
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The glories of our blood 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 down And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 
