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" 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. "
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redigeeritud poolt - 1809
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 45. köide

1839 - 894 lehte
...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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 45. köide

1839 - 876 lehte
...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...
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Selections from the British Poets, 1. köide

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 lehte
...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...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 lehte
...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...
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The School and the Schoolmaster: A Manual for the Use of Teachers, Employers ...

Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 lehte
...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....
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Chronicles of saint Mungo: or, Antiquities and traditions of Glasgow

Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 lehte
...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...
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The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the ..., 1. köide

William Goodman - 1843 - 342 lehte
...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,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., 2. köide

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 lehte
...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...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, 2. köide

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 lehte
...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...
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The Church of England Magazine, 17. köide

1844 - 498 lehte
...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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