| 1819 - 352 páginas
...due, I've paid my shot and so must you. LIKES. A tittle rule, a little sway, A sunbeam In a winter day, Is all the proud and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave. EPITAPH. Here rests my speuse; no pair throughlife So cqu,il\lv'd as we did ; Alike we shar'd perpetual... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 páginas
...Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is 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 succeeding wave, they... | |
| Privateer - 1821 - 464 páginas
...broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state : Bat transient is the smile of fate I A little rale, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the prond and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. DYE*. 1 HE next morning Ardourly awakened himself... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is 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 succeeding wave,... | |
| 1822 - 614 páginas
...permanency, we have doubts; in fact, we have no doubts : she will fall as she has risen— by chance. " A little; rule, a little sway, " A sunbeam in a winter's day, " Is all the proud and mighty hava " Between their uradle and the grave." The favour that hangs upon princes is not to be relied... | |
| Richard Willett - 1822 - 206 páginas
...sub nomine, nuper Ofelli Dictus, erit nulli proprius ; sed cedet in usum Nunc mihi, nunc alii." • " A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a Winter's day, Is all the great and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave." This parishj containing 16,444 acres, is... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...time has been, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen the broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is the...sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud ami mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 662 páginas
...brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient are the smiles of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter s day, Is all the great, the mighty, have Between the cradle and the grave.* " Thus, in the... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 páginas
...heightened by melancholy, which is brought on by the state of the liver. Moral on the Vanity of Greatness. A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave. Propertius writes : — , Diim nos fata sinunt, oculos satieuius amore, Nox tibi longa venit, nee reditura... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, winter's-day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers... | |
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