 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.  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Стр. 1451844Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - Страниц: 372
...truth of Shirley's noble lines, in the contention of Ajax and Ulysses: — " The glories of our earthly 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... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - Страниц: 906
...expand, thy branches play, And bloom forever in the immortal lay. FROM PERCY'S 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 hands on kings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 404
...branches play, And bloom forever in the immortal lay. FROM PERCY'S KFI.KTUES. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. TUT. glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 616
...the extreme verge of mortality; were all conveyed to the tomb within little more than two years. Tlic glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour 'gainst our fate, Death lays his icy li^ud on kings ; Sceptres and crowns must tumble d And in the... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - Страниц: 334
...mortal man ? Thy entrance on eternity. DEATH A UNIVERSAL CONQUEROR. SHIRLEY. THE glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown DEATH. tome men with swords may reap the field, ind plant fresh laurels... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - Страниц: 332
...and happy as in the most prosperous state of life ; for, in that fine strain set by Orlando Gibbons, The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. I am sufficiently blessed in my earthly condition, having a wife as dutiful as Kenna, and a place of... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - Страниц: 330
...and happy as in the most prosperous state of life; for, in that fine strain set by Orlando Gibbons, The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. I am sufficiently blessed in my earthly condition, having a wife as dutiful as Kenna, and a place of... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - Страниц: 378
...disown ; Yields to His pleasure, and forgets The choice was not his own. DEATH'S CONQUEST. [PEECY.] THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...things ; There is no armour against fate, Death lays bis icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - Страниц: 1022
...warmest welcome at an inn. JAMES SHIRLEY. {From The Contention of Ajax and Ulyssti.] DEATH THE LEVELLER. 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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - Страниц: 414
...Ignotique longa nocte." Shirley strikingly describes the transitory nature of earthly grandeur : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hand on kings." What, then, is the inference ? — That happiness does not exist ; or, as Ovid says,... | |
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