 Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.  Elegant Extracts - 475 ページ 編集 - 1809全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1839 - 894 ページ
...Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave." The Country Walk is almost Grongar Hill over again, with variations — but it has some pictures more... | |
 | 1839 - 876 ページ
...Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate 1 A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 ページ
...in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldering walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 ページ
...Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there fall Hnge heaps of hoary, mouldered wall. Yet time has seen — that lifts the low. And level...have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 ページ
...natural play of his finer feelings. The sunshine of the breast is something more than a metaphor. " A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave." Let the teacher, who often has too much of the two first, take care to get his portion of the last.... | |
 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 ページ
...borough of Rutherglen. * Tbe site of Queen-Street. CHAPTER II. REMARKABLE OLD EDIFICES FORMERLY EXTANT. ' Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...brow; Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state." PRIOR. To a reflecting mind it is something more than merely amusing to mark the... | |
 | William Goodman - 1843 - 342 ページ
...painting of wonderful variety." Of many of these old buildings we may say : "Time, which brings the mighty low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this...broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state." In which we may still observe : " And all the hinder parts, that few could spy, Were ruinous and old,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. *X rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and son, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...moss, and weeds j While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall«. Yet time ha« seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty...have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Through woods and meads, in shade arid sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave... | |
 | 1844 - 498 ページ
...pile complete, Bij with the vanity of state j But transient is th« smile of fate. A little rule, л little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day. Is all the...mighty have Between the cradle and the grave."— DTER. To how many solemn reflections are such scenes as that here represented calculated to give rise... | |
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