 | Sir Robert Adair - Europe - 1844 - 552 pages
...first-rate talents.' Cependant tout ce qu'ils ont fait, tout ce * Speech on Mr. Fox's India Bill. f " The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more...purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ! Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." The above lines of Shirley point... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...murt jit'id, They tame but one another still ; Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up ss To be a little wilderness ; And all the spring-time...It loved only to be there. Among the beds of lilies vour mighty d«*l- : Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...last must yield ; They turne but one another still. Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives creep...of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." It is said to have been a favourite song with that profligate man, King Charles H. ; it is to be regretted,... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. " The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more...of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." IT is wonderful how a brief record like an epitaph may hold in itself and convey to the reader a revelation... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...must yield ; They tame but one another still.4 Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives,...deeds ! Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds ! Your heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,5... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1846 - 402 pages
...last must yicld; They tame but one another still. Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep...bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actious of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. m. THE RISING IN THE NORTH. THE subject of... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep...altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon denth's purple altur now See where the victor-victim bleeds 1 All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. MOURN NOT. If death from thee the loved doth sever, Mourn not 1 The good are parted not forever, Mourn... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...last must yield, They tame but one another still ; Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up is almost as rich as that of Falitaff, and he argues...fair. He moralises as follows : — For women first Upon hit Mittmt Sad. Melancholy, hence, and get . Some piece of earth to be thy seat, Here the air... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...They tame but one another still ; Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring1 breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death....of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. —JAMES SHIRLEY. TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN. Go now, and with some daring drug Bait thy disease... | |
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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 nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop... 
