 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
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 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. 100 If this song lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who... | |
 | 1850 - 634 pages
...sweat mantles on his brow, and bedews his face — he groans — he expires. " Earth's highest station ends in — ' Here he lies,' And dust to dust concludes her noblest song." A sultan amusing himself with walking, observed a dervisc sitting with a human skull in his lap, ana... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pages
...mighty hunter, earths them all 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 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. ALEXANDER POPE. BOKN, 1688; DIED, 1744. GREATNESS. LOOK next on greatness ; say where greatness lies,... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame t Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies,' And dust to dust concludes her noblest song." Catharine. Excellent ! Thank Heaven for this meeting ! We have arrived at the true philosophy of life.... | |
 | New England - 1851 - 532 pages
...of the Colony of Connecticut and died May 17. Anno ^Etatis 89 salutis 1767. Earth's highest station ends in here he lies, And dust to dust concludes her noblest song. BW Died Sept 2. 1680. what once was writ by one upon this Stone he hears is now washt out and lost... | |
 | Frederick Richard Chichester (Earl of Belfast.) - 1851 - 300 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." YOTJNG. The Complaint. THE even course of time brought but little change into the homes of the various... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...The funeral took place on the 13th of Dec. at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies ! ' And ' Dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song." " All the glory of man is as the flower of the field." THE INVOCATION. SWEET Summer, O quickly appear,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour ! What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ; .~: : : ; And when he argues in favour of the immortality of man from the analogies of nature, with what exquisite... | |
 | Samuel Richard Wills - 1852 - 164 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." Yes ; that proud courtier's coronet must fall from his ice-cold brow ; the commanding oratory of that... | |
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