 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
 | Benjamin Richings - 1840 - 264 pages
...triumphs of an hour ? — What though men wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And "dust to dust" concludes her noblest songs. 18. " What avail High titles, high descent, attainments high, If unattained our highest" hope,... | |
 | George Fowler - Iran - 1841 - 718 pages
...&c. What a commentary on all this splendour are the words of our poet:— " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies,' -And ' dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song."' • In the burial of their kings they had formerly a superstitious custom in Persia. In order to prevent... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1844 - 926 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour 1 What, tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Etrth's highest station ends in " Here he lies ;" And " Dust to dust " concludes her noblest song. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. THE bells from many churches were ringing, and their merry peals were wafted... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour 1 What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Karth's highest station And when he argues in favour of the immortality of man from the analogies of nature, with what exquisite... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour ! What though we wade in wealth, ur soar in fame, Earth's highest station ng. Anon her thin wan son». And when lie argues in favour of the immortality о man from the analogies of nature, with what... | |
 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 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. YOUNG. THE WOUNDED SPIRIT. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels, No cure for such, till God... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity. 14. Earth's highest station ends in " here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 15. O greatness ! thou art but a flattering dream, A watery bubble, lighter... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...alms of homage from the throng, • And oft the throng denies its charity. 14. Earth's highest station ends in " here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 16. O greatness ! thou art but a flattering dream, A watery bubble, lighter... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...mighty hunter, earths them all What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Garth'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... | |
 | Psychology, Pathological - 1849 - 700 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour? What thongh 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 feeling of anxiety is one continued heart -ache — it is the dread of something worse than the present.... | |
| |
