 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1844 - 604 pages
...majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey I The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy...with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale . . il The lazy yawning drone." Alas ! in Bee-dom, the archbishop himself, inasmuch as he was no wax-chandler,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pages
...emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. Scottish nation. Thus wrote James Either of Harewood to Lord Burghley, in 1588 :—" It is needful... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. LIFE AND DEATH.1 To be, or not to be, that is the question : — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...emperor, Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. I this infer, That many things having full reference To one concent, may work contrariously ; As many... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. SHAKSPEB E. TO MAY. THOUGH many suns have risen and set Since thou, blithe May, wert born, And bards... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...emperor, Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. 159.— CONQUEST OP CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE CRUSADERS. ' THERE is no old chronicler, either French or... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. BIT AMPERE. TO MAY. THOUGH many suns have risen and set Since thou, blithe Slay, wert born, And bards... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...their emperor: Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil ed in by SUFFOLK; YORK, SOMERSET, BUCKINGHAM, and...following. Suf. As by your high imperial majesty 1 had sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The luzy yawning drone. I this... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 268 pages
...emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone." Alas ! in Bee-dom, the archbishop himself, inasmuch as he was no wax-chandler, would have been accounted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 560 pages
...peopled kingdom." < ie of different degrees : if it be not an error of the press for sort, ie rank. The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy...justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors l pale The lazy, yawning drone. I this infer, — That many things, having full reference To one concent,... | |
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Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy... 
