 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 Englishman's fire-side - Page 72Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...acknowledging this, that we feel the whole force of those noble lines : The glories of onr earthly state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand oo kings. Sceptre and crown Must tnmble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | 1822 - 796 pages
...triātlit/unent to SACRED POETRY. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, uot substantial things, There is no armour against, fate : Death lays his icy Lands on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made ЛУ ith the poor... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1823 - 524 pages
...kind of Dirge to the foregoing piece. It is said to have beea a favourite Song with K.. Charles II. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings : Scepter and crown 5 Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...suggest an awful impression of the fleeting character of all human greatness. " The jjlories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy bauds on King? : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made AVith the poor crooked... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 372 pages
...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 - 906 pages
...thy gems 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... | |
 | Worcester County (Mass.) - 1826 - 404 pages
...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 - 616 pages
...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 - 334 pages
...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 - 330 pages
...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... | |
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