 THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.  Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs - Page 399by United States. Department of State - 1866Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1862 - 542 pages
...inscrutable Will of Providence. Never yet has a sadder emphasis been given to the Poet's lines — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things." A DAY OF ARCTIC ADVENTURE. BY DAVID WALKER, MD, FLS, MRIA, FBGS, ic. (Late Surgeon and Naturalist on... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...ruined, between spring-time and winter ! The life of man, how similar, — save for a longer season. ' The glories of our birth 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... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...Yorao. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death. POPE. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things. SHIRLEY. Give me the mind that, bent on highest aim, Deems virtue's rugged path sole path to fame ;... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...and bold, — But hearts have now grown cunning and cold, Earnest in nought but the strife for gold ! The glories of our birth 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... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...large a share From nature's rich perfumes. James Shirley. Born 1594. Died 1666. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state, Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate. Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Joseph Cundall - English poetry - 1862 - 94 pages
...nought t'affright Sweet sleep, that makes more short the night. ROBERT HEREICK. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings; Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1863 - 328 pages
...highest trust, and for whom the official Senate and low-browed Church send out their hollow groans. " The glories of our birth 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,... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...frivolous monarch as not altogether unsusceptible of grave and serious reflection. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pages
...of the garden wither as the grass. Old winter strips the giant oak, as well as the sapling willow. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and erowu Must tumble... | |
 | William Henry Dixon - Biography - 1863 - 714 pages
...monarch would muse upon those startling thoughts which a later poet so beautifully moulded into verse. " The glories of our birth 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... | |
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