 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
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...sail, Or all the toil is lost. Cowper. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST.1 THE glories of our blood and state2 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1846 - 402 pages
...kind of Dirge to the foregoing plece. It is said to have been a favourite song with K. Charles 1I. Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no...armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings : THE glorics of our birth and state Scepter and crown • And in the dust be equal made With the poor... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...seemed, without conceit, to be Both one and two in our identity. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. — Shirley. 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. THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS. Sceptre and crown... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...fellows. fioette Selections.. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, ndt substantial things ; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand oil kmgs ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again. -Ibid. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state, Are...substantial things ; There is no armour against fate t Death lavs his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - Battles - 1847 - 454 pages
...sixteen months old. Kings and conquerors are but mortal, like their subjects or their slaves : — The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; 6 There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings : All heads mast come To the... | |
 | John Noake - Church buildings - 1848 - 396 pages
...visor being up, imparts to it a yawning deathlike aspect, which seems to read a bitter moral : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...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 Stirling Maxwell - Art - 1848 - 580 pages
...salutary lesson, that Works of Bog at Madrid. Work* at J'uvncia. JCVermeyen " 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."1 When called upon to paint the person of our blessed Lord, the gloomy genius of Bos... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Congregational churches - 1849 - 558 pages
...Till heaven with hallelujahs ring. LM 0 U 0 . J- SHIRLEY altered. Transitoriness of earthly Honors. i THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. a Princes and magistrates must fall, And in the dust be equal made, The high and mighty with the small,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...and his wife died, of grief, or exposure, the day after the great fire in London. DEATH'S CONCIUEST. 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 : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And, in... | |
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