 I'd say, how fate may change and shift; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be a vulgar clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down.  The Living Age - Pàgina 3041849Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1862 - 394 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the...down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | 1853 - 842 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the...clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast piteously down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be he who took and gave! Why should your... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pàgines
...Heaven, that early Love and Truth May never wholly pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I 'd say, how fate may change and shift ; The prize...down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pàgines
...learned at home to love and pray, Pray Heaven, that early Love and Truth May never wholly pass away. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | 1853 - 800 pàgines
...in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift; The prize be sometimes witb the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may full, The great man be a vulgar clown. The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast piteously down.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855 - 526 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate 'may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the...down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift ; o The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the...down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 110 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the...down. > Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1857 - 290 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I 'd say, how fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 47 The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down. Who knows the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pàgines
...pass away. And in the world, as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the...down. Who knows the inscrutable design? Blessed be He who took' and gave ! AVhy should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave?... | |
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