 | John Wesley - 1810 - 476 pages
...and what is left of many grand buildings, yield a melancholy pleasure : — Thus, " A little power, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the great and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave ! " We lodged at Castle-dermot, and reached... | |
 | James Storer - 1811 - 318 pages
...level lays the lofty brow — Has seen this broken pile complete,i] Big with the vanity of state i But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winteris day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. DYER. iCS 1 PART OF... | |
 | Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) - 1812 - 322 pages
...And level lays the lofty brow; Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state. A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's...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 pages
...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, how they run Thro' woods and meads, in fhade and fun '• Sometimes fwift, fometimes... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, — Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of 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... | |
 | 1817 - 296 pages
...has seen that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, ~) Big with the vanity of state ; > But transient is the smile of fate. J In the church at Berry Pomeroy, which was built by one of the Pomeroy family, is an elaborate alabaster... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...adeptlnca light JUfftncr of utterance in the perusal. Begin it In' a ilrurt dtl*trUf manner. GRONGAR HILL. A LITTLE rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, !$ all the proud, the mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. ' ib And see the rivers how they... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...Wrangham — it is a treasure of Biography. 202 LEICESTER ABBEY. Has seen this broken file complete, Big with the vanity of state ! But transient is the...rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is nil the PROUD and MIGHTY have Between the cradle and the grave 1 DYER. * Such, my young friend, is... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pages
...time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the...cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 412 pages
...this broken pile complete, ^ Big with the vanity of state : C But transient is the smile of Fate ! J A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun! Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they... | |
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Big with the vanity of state ; 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. 
