 | Suhas Chatterjee - 1995 - 236 páginas
...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. —James Shirty The Mizos lived underthe gerontocracy where chiefs had a pre-eminent position. The... | |
 | Martin Bulmer, Anthony M. Rees - 1996 - 332 páginas
...Shirley (1596-1666) reminds us that: 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. (Shirley 1646) This attitude is integral to Christian social teaching that dominated the evaluation of equality... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 páginas
...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. Lines longer than the norm, like the alexandrine in the following example, generate a sense of stretch... | |
 | Mike Royston - 1998 - 246 páginas
...is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown 5 Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: 10 But their strong... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 132 páginas
...is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: s Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, 10 And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong... | |
 | Mark Pryce - 2001 - 164 páginas
...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. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 2001 - 220 páginas
...more men than women, but made little distinction between classes. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. As a result, infected persons were deserted by neighbours, family members and physicians. Some doctors,... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 páginas
...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. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill, But their strong... | |
 | Kathleen Spaltro, Noeline Bridge - 2005 - 336 páginas
...into a shrewd and cynical ruler whose memories reminded him that "Sceptre and crown must tumble down / And in the dust be equal made / With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Two-and-a-half years after the 1649 execution of his father, Charles I, in 1651 Charles II lost the... | |
 | 张秀国 - 2005 - 288 páginas
...9.The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden, 10.Scepter and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked Scythe and Spade. (James Shirley) 11.Constant dropping wears the stone, (proverb) 12.They had to bear the pitiless wind... | |
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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. 
