 | Edward Parry - 1851 - 532 pages
...and weeds; While ever and anon there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls! Yet time has been, 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 — A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldering walla. Yet time has seen, that lilts 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! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldering walls. Yet, time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen Ihis broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a... | |
 | Youth - 1856 - 412 pages
...in ruins, moss, and weeds; While ever and anon there falls Hugo heaps of hoary moldered walls ; Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken wall complete, Big with the vanity of state; How transient is tho smile of fate I A little rule, a... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, . TWO GRONGAE HILL. Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...ruins, moss, nnd weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls, Huge heaps of lionry molder'd walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...— Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - Great Britain - 1854 - 370 pages
...exist, its principal site is now occupied by edifices of a less imposing and more peaceful character. " Time has seen, — that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, — Hus seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state. A little rule, a little sway,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder' d walls. Yet time has been, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen the broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ; A little... | |
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Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. 
