 ... inhabitants of the realms above. What pleasure of life is unmixed with sorrow ? What glory upon earth is of long continuance ? All are more fleeting than a shadow, all are more deceitful than a dream ! In one moment death endeth all. I thought of...  The Stoic; Or, Memoirs of Eurysthenes the Athenian - Page 98by Jane Kinderly Stanford - 1834 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Robert Ker Porter - Russia - 1809 - 502 pages
...immortal king, to give repose to him who is departed, and to place him in the habitation of the joyful. " Where are the affections of the world? Where the vain dream of earthly delights? Where gold and silver? Where the multitude and din of attendants? Look on this coffin,... | |
 | Caroline Bowles Southey - Athens (Greece) - 1836 - 222 pages
...deceitful than a dream ! In one moment death endeth all. I thought of the shortness of life;—all human things are vain, which cannot survive the grave:...was now dissolved ;—the spirit had forsaken its mansion—the clay was disfigured—the vessel broken—a speechles, motionless, senseless body was... | |
 | Caroline Bowles Southey - Athens (Greece) - 1836 - 218 pages
...! In one moment death endeth all. I thought of the shortness of life;—all human things are rain, which cannot survive the grave. Will riches survive...was now dissolved ;—the spirit had forsaken its mansion—the clay was disfigured—the vessel broken—a speechles, motionless, senseless body was... | |
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