 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's highest station ends in Here he lies f And dust to dust concludes her noblest song ! The author «f these lines is not without his Hie By... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 páginas
...all this toil for 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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 302 páginas
...; As wolves, for rapine ; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho'...:" 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 páginas
...those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame ! Earth's highest...lies ! And dust to dust concludes her noblest song ! The author of these lines is not without his Hicjacei. By the good sense of his son, it contains... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Moriarty - 1811 - 216 páginas
...that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? . j. ' What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame : Earth's highest...lies," And " dust to dust," concludes her noblest song. YOUN«. A FEW days after Mrs. Abraham . , . Modish's rout, Mrs. Mortimer had two friends to call upon... | |
 | Edward Young - 1812 - 814 páginas
...those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's highest...lies! And dust to dust concludes her noblest song ! " The author of these lines is not without his Hie jacet. " By the good sense of his son, it contains... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 páginas
...Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for trinmphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame? Earth's highest...;' 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 - 1813 - 380 páginas
...death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest...:" 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... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 páginas
...began to peruse the following lines — " Why all this toil, for triumphs of an hour ? \Vlr-il though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame • Earth's highest...in ' here he lies,' And ' dust to dust' concludes the noblest song." Reading, however, had lost its wonted charms to Anselmo : he laid down the volume,... | |
 | Firdawsī - 1814 - 316 páginas
...Knocks at the palace as the cottage gate. And Young: What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame I Earth's highest station ends in here he lies! And dust to dust concludes her noblest song. But Darwin takes a more extensive rar^e of thought in the following lines.; Like raging Elephants they... | |
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