 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.  More Literary Recreations - Stran 67avtor: Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1919 - 395 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1839 - 894 strani
...the art, Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart." KEOM THE "CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES." " The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...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... | |
 | 1840 - 372 strani
...to men (The ghost at last confess'd), The world had then a stranger been JAMES SHIRLEY. 1594-1666. THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...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... | |
 | 1840 - 298 strani
...stiff the hand, and 'Still the tongue, &c. Shirleius: The glories of our birth and state | are shadoms, not substantial things; | there is no armour against .fate, | Death lays his icy hand on kings; | sceptre and cromn | must tumble down, | and in the dust be laid | with the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1841 - 132 strani
...sleep the hallowed sleep, — Sleep that is o'erwatched by heaven. LXIX. The glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...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... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 strani
...the more common of their kind — nothing in respect to this world : — * The glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things: There is no armour against fate ; Dreth lays his icy band on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal laid,... | |
 | 1842 - 542 strani
...dialect which developes itself in such euphonisms, as tcobber, tciddle and majowity. From SHIRLEY. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...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... | |
 | 1842 - 344 strani
...of dialect which developes itself in such euphemisms as icobber, widdle and majowity. From SHIRLEY. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...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... | |
 | 1842 - 92 strani
...characteristic songs, by which, among ordinary readers of poetry, Shirley is best known. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dost be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | R. M. Evans - 1842 - 264 strani
...Kings and conquerors are but mortal, like their subjects or their slaves : — The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings : All heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the... | |
 | Isaac Nicholson Allen - 1843 - 504 strani
...unburied, to find at last such a lowly grave ! Well has our old poet said, " The glories of this mortal state Are shadows — not substantial things ; There...armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown must tumble down, And in the dust be equal laid With the poor crooked scythe and... | |
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