 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
 | William Lisle Bowles - Anglican Communion - 1830 - 332 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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...own. DEATH'S CONQUEST. [PEECY.] THE glories of our hirth and state Are shadows, not suhstantial thmgs' There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumhle down, And, in the dust, he equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 - 414 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...indeed, can never be too often quoted, or read with diminished admiration. rr DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. Tbo glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial...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... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...in his Posthumous 1'aeiia. There is in them a grand and touching solemnity, 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'; Scepter and crown Muat tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 540 pages
...THERSANDER, NESTOR, and ULYSSBS, following the hearse, as going to lite temple. Cal. 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 : Scepter and crown Must tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 528 pages
...as this noble dirge has been quoted, it must not be omitted here : — " 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 Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
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