 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 - Page 475redigeeritud poolt - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Privateer - 1821 - 464 lehte
...Couceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldcr'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 lehte
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps, of hoary moulder'd walls, . 1 Dinuvaur Castle. 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... | |
 | 1822 - 614 lehte
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 lehte
...moulder'd walls. Yet 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...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 lehte
...part with the ruins of some older monument that occupied the same spot of ground — ' But time bas seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. s stre winter's-day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 lehte
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 lehte
...pile complete, i . Big with the vanity of state : S £ But transient is the smile of fate ! ) !I)neJ A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's...have, Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Thro' woods and meads, in shade and son I Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...in ruins, moss, and weeds ; Whi1e, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. ͓ # ρ D 炀 炀 ( ϓ 삀 eomplete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ; A little rule, a little... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 lehte
...the broken pile complete, 7 Big with the vanity of state : f But transient is the smile of fate ; J A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swiftly, sometimes slow,... | |
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