 The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.  Ben Jonson to Dryden - Page 204edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...Wagttaffe." It is affirmed of Charles II. that he was mightily delighted with these beautiful stanzas, The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate . Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...mortal man ? Thy entrance on eternity. DEATH A UNIVERSAL CONQUEROR. SHIRLEY. THE glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown DEATH. tome men with swords may reap the field, ind plant fresh laurels where they kill ; . ir their... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...we may meet DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST, in the hopes of a joyful resurrection, with joy and gladness : The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | 1833 - 388 pages
...often quoted, or read with diminished admiration. rr DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. Tbo glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There...the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; Hut their strong nerves at last muet yield ; They tame but one another still: Early or late They... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 534 pages
...DIOMEDES, MENELAUS, THERSANDER, NESTOR, and ULYSSES, following the hearse, as going to the temple. Cal. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made fPtth the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...Butler's, being published in his Posthumous 1'aeiia. There is in them a grand and touching solemnity, The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not...armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings'; Scepter and crown Muat tumble down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 540 pages
...UIOMEDES, MENKI.AUS, THERSANDER, NESTOR, and ULYSSES, ' following the hearse, as going to the temple. Cal. The glories of our blood and state . Are shadows,...no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on Icings : Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made fFtth the poor crooked scythe... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 pages
...as this noble dirge has been quoted, it must not be omitted here : — ' The glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...Shirley strikingly describes the transitory nature of earthly grandeur : — " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...against fate : Death lays his icy hand on kings." What, then, is the inference ? — That happiness does not exist ; or, as Ovid says, — . " Dicique... | |
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