 Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust  Putnam's Monthly - Page 1261857Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour? What, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies :" And " Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. 100 If this song lives, posterity shall know One (though in Britain born, with courtiers bred) Who... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies :" And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, tho' in Britain born, with courtiers bred, y Who thought... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies :" And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, tho' in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies :" And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Jf this song lives, posterity shall know One, tho' in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...for triumphs of an hour ? \Vhat, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies:" And " Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One (though in Britain born, with courtiers bred,) Who thought... | |
 | Edward Young, Thomas Park - 1808 - 336 pages
...for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies ;' And ' dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | William Savery - Sermons, American - 1808 - 126 pages
...thy days here may be few ; *' dust thou art, and to dust thou shall return." Earth's highest station ends in, " here he lies :" And, " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. SERMON VII. MY religion teaches me this—and it is the .grand ruling and fundamental point'upon which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour? Whit, tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame? Earth's highest station B B B B B B B B B B B B E E E E E E E D B B E E B B B If this song lives, posterity shall know One, tho' in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame ! Earth's highest station ends in here he lies ! And dust to dust concludes her noblest song! The author of these lines is not without his Hicjacet. By the good sense of his son, it contains none of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? • 1'arth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. If this sor? lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
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