...shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings j Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. " The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar,...

...fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings : THE glorics of our birth and state Scepter and crown • And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked...where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yicld; They tame but one another still. Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring...

...shadows, ndt substantial things ; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand oil kmgs ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon denth's purple altur...

...DEATH. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial thing« : There is no armor against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre...scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the ñeld, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; Bnt their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame...

...palace of the great, The cabin of the poor." Mr. Howell has compared Shirley's quaint verse, — " Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown...And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scithe and spade." " In they go, Beggar and banker, porter, gentleman, The cinder-wench and white-handed...

...it a yawning deathlike aspect, which seems to read a bitter moral : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." A few old encaustic tiles, brasses, and scattered bits of stained glass remaining in the windows, make...

...solemn salutary lesson, that Works of Bos it Madrid. CHAP. III.— REIGN OF Vurks at I '«J.CJ'iTmcycn " The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not...no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings."1 When called upon to paint the person of our blessed Lord, the gloomy genius of Bos selected...

...place. Of Kings, 883 arrived in these realms, while 789 were deposed by the grim monarch, before whom " Sceptre and crown must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." COMMON SURNAMES. and moral qualities are exceedingly numerous, only three — Browne, Mitchell, and...

...decadence. His motto might be — " The glories of our life and state Are shadows, not substantial things, Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade His James II., which we noticed last year, is now succeeded by the Royal Family of France, when Louis...

...i? early as 1588, would look like a school or colleg; version of Shirley's well-known stanza : — " Sceptre and crown .Must tumble down, And in the dust...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Did Shirley borrow the idea from this couplet c did both he and the writer of Carmina Proverbial* derive...