 | Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) - 1812 - 322 pàgines
...complete, Big with the vanities of state. 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." BOTHWELL-CHURCH is an old structure in the Gothic stile, seventy feet in length over the walls, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pàgines
...brow, Has feen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of ftate ; But tranfient is the fmile of fate ! A little rule, a little fway, A fun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have, . ' Between the cradle and the grave. And fee the rivers,... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pàgines
...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 the cradle and the grave." The Country Walk is almost Gronyar Hill over again, with variations — but it has some pictures more... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 414 pàgines
...V But transient is the smile of Fate ! j A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pàgines
...state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty 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... | |
 | 1819 - 352 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...; 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. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pàgines
...state : But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate; A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam William" "6/ see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pàgines
...liver. Moral on the Vanity of Greatness. A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave. Propertius writes : — , Diim nos fata sinunt, oculos satieuius amore, Nox tibi longa venit, nee reditura... | |
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But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. 
