 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 páginas
...which scarce stands one moment." 79. Shirley, 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 down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 páginas
...which scarce stands one moment." 79. Shirley, 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 down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Abraham Coles - 1887 - 400 páginas
...and dust, And, live we how can, yet die we must." Another poet moralizes: " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...against fate — • Death lays his icy hands on kings; * * * All heads must come To the cold tomb — Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood - 1887 - 518 páginas
...motley crowd uncovering as the majesty passes, and the boys follow, chanting, "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." Yes, and on the gay visitor at the Casino. These simple and unostentatious funerals... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1889 - 52 páginas
...respects " neither the beauties of youth, the strength of manhood, nor the majesty of age " In thu morning, noonday and eventide of life this inexorable...these considerations pressing down upon us we are daily admonished that life is uncertain. How slender the silvery thread by which it hangs. How little... | |
 | Cora Hayward Crawford - 1889 - 360 páginas
...its prime, and rich with all things great; to-day, death and the grave ! " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ! There...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 páginas
...error, Their death a hideous storm of terror." What can be graver than— " 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." For pure poignancy, profundity, and weight, Elizabethan lyrics will compare not unfavorably... | |
 | 1889 - 860 páginas
...error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. What can be graver than — 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. For pure poignancy, profoundly, and weight, Elizabethan lyrics will compare not unfavorably... | |
 | United States. 50th Congress, 1st sess., 1887-1888 - 1889 - 74 páginas
...ruthlessly taken by the Angel of Death. But sooner or later it comes to us all. The glories of our morlal state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter ami crown Must tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor sickle,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 páginas
...quiet passage to a welcome grave. IZAAK WALTOH. B rate's ^inal (Conquest. THE glories of oar birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There...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.... | |
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THE glories of our blood 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 down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 
