 | British poets - 1822 - 272 halaman
...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...and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | 1822 - 614 halaman
...permanency, we have doubts; in fact, we have no doubts : she will fall as she has risen— by chance. " A little; rule, a little sway, " A sunbeam in a winter's day, " Is all the proud and mighty hava " Between their uradle and the grave." The favour that hangs upon princes is not to be relied... | |
 | Richard Willett - 1822 - 206 halaman
...sub nomine, nuper Ofelli Dictus, erit nulli proprius ; sed cedet in usum Nunc mihi, nunc alii." • " A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a Winter's day, Is all the great and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave." This parishj containing 16,444 acres, is... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 halaman
...seen the 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 day, Is all the proud ami mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 halaman
...heightened by melancholy, which is brought on by the state of the liver. Moral on the Vanity of Greatness. A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave. Propertius writes : — , Diim nos fata sinunt, oculos satieuius amore, Nox tibi longa venit, nee reditura... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 halaman
...state : But transient is the smile of fate; A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's-day, liam Hazlitt And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 halaman
...pile complete, i . Big with the vanity of state : S £ But transient is the smile of fate ! ) !I)neJ A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's...and mighty have, Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run Thro' woods and meads, in shade and son I Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 halaman
...seen this broken pile eomplete, Big with the vanity of state : But transient is the smile of fate ; ÿ ʢ D 恀 삀 烀 肀 3 ၀ eradle and the grave. And see the rivers, how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1826 - 476 halaman
...and what is left of many grand buildings, yield a melancholy pleasure : — Thus, " A little power, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the great and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave !" We lodged at Castle-dermot, and reached Dublin... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 halaman
...the broken pile complete, 7 Big with the vanity of state : f But transient is the smile of fate ; J A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's...and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swiftly, sometimes... | |
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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. 
