 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, Hence 'tis apparent that, what courte Sœ'er we take to your amours, Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pages
...There is no armor 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. Some men with swords may reap the ñeld, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; Bnt their strong... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...is no armour against fate t Death lavs his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong... | |
 | 1848 - 602 pages
...There is no armor 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. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1848 - 170 pages
...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 scythe and spade. " Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong... | |
 | John Noake - 1848 - 396 pages
...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." A few old encaustic tiles, brasses, and scattered bits of stained glass remaining in the windows, make... | |
 | 1879 - 674 pages
...school or college version of Shirley's well-known stanza : — " Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Did Shirley borrow the idea from this couplet, or did both he and the writer of Carmina Provcrbialia... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1849 - 260 pages
...realms, while 789 were deposed by the grim monarch, before whom " Sceptre and crown must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade." COMMON SURNAMES. and moral qualities are exceedingly numerous, only three — Browne, Mitchell, and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...There is no armor 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 scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 608 pages
...shadows, not substantial things, 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 His James II., which we noticed last year, is now succeeded by the Royal Family of France, when Louis... | |
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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. 
