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 Reflections on Death - Página 136por William Dodd - 1815 - 206 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1900 - 726 páginas
...several years was Governor of the Colony of Connecticut died May 17. Aetatis 89 Anno Salutis 1767. Earth's highest station ends in "Here he lies" And dust to dust concludes her noblest song. The Oliver Ellsworth monument of white marble, marking the graves of the distinguished jurist and diplomat... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 páginas
...Alps." " Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow." " The man that blushes is not quite a brute." " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies ; ' And ' dust to dust ' concludes the noblest song." The mind that coined these and many similar expressions was endowed with no ordinary... | |
| William Ezra Ketcham - 1899 - 386 páginas
...be on the morrow, — all flesh is as grass, and," etc. The noblest triumphs are soon over : — " Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies.' And, ' Dust to dust,' concludes their noblest song." 1. The writer had lost all, and" despaired even of life" Sick and in prison, without... | |
| 1900 - 214 páginas
...us eternally; and time enough to squander on the fleeting pleasures that vanish away! " What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame ! Earth's highest...;' And 'Dust to Dust' concludes her noblest song." MEDITATION. " God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to whole." —Pope.... | |
| Edward Jay Allen - 1900 - 132 páginas
...proudly in the strife stand by thy side, And battle hand in hand. GARFIELD, 1881 Le roi est mart " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies,' And ' Dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song." SWEEP in, wild waves, upon the shore, With sobbing gusts die on the strand ; Thy music cheereth nevermore... | |
| Henry Benjamin Meigs - 1901 - 420 páginas
...Rolls, Vol. 4, p. 164. Probably Stephen 137. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ! What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame ! Earth's highest...Here he lies ; '' And " Dust to dust " concludes her nohlest SOUR. - -Edit1. ) 'oung. No. 143. NATHAN MEIGS. Nathan Meigs served in the War of the Revolution,... | |
| W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 páginas
...— Byron : • Childe Harold,* Canto Hi. He is not great, who is not greatly good. — Shakespeare. Earth's highest station, ends in ' Here he lies' ; And, • Dust to dust,* concludes the noblest song. — Young. GRIEF Everyone can master a grief, but be that hath it. —Shakespeare:... | |
| William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 páginas
...— Byron : * Childe Harold,* Canto Hi. He is not great, who is not greatly good. — Shakespeare. Earth's highest station, ends in • Here he lies* ; And, • Dust to dust," concludes the noblest song. — Young. GRIEF Everyone can master a grief, bat he that hath it. —Shakespeare.-... | |
| William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 páginas
...— Byron : * Childe Harold,* Canto iit. He is dot great, who is not greatly good. — Shakespeare. Earth's highest station, ends in « Here he lies' ; And, * Dust to dust,* conclude* the noblest song. - Young. 5'4 GRIEF Everyone can master a grief, but be that bath it. —... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hdur ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ; Earth's highest...lies," And ' dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song. Procrastination. Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ;... | |
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