MORTALITY, behold and fear What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones ; Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands, Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust They preach,... Fireside studies - Página 165por Henry Kingsley - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Beaumont - 1846 - 556 páginas
...on now, I know what it is. k thy] Old eds. " tlieir " ; and so Weber. ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER. MORTALITY, behold, and fear ! What a change of flesh is here ! Think haw many royal bones Sleep within this" heap of stones : Here they lie had realms and lands, Who now... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 páginas
...style was to poetry, and how well it weaves in with it. " Mortality, behold, and fear, What a charge of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep...strength to stir their hands. Where from their pulpits, sealed in dust, They preach ' In greatness is no trust.' Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest,... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 864 páginas
...MORTALITY, behold and fear, What a charge of flesh is here ! Think how many royal bones Sleep within these heap of stones : Here they lie had realms and lands,...strength to stir their hands; Where, from their pulpits sealed with dust, They preach— in greatness is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...Mortality, behold and fear, What a charge of flesh is here ! Think how many royal bones Sleep within these pear: That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming seal'd with dust, They preach — in greatness is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...Mortality, behold and fear, What a charge of flesh is here ! Think how many royal bones Sleep within these rayers, handl ; Where, from their pulpits scal'd with dust, They preach — in greatness is no trust. Here's... | |
| 1913 - 586 páginas
...Shakespeare, when he thus unkindly added a foot-note to Beaumont's famous apostrophe : — Here they lye, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands. Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruiu'd sides of kings. John Bradshaw, who died in the... | |
| 1851 - 496 páginas
...PARAPHRASE OF LINES ON THE TOBIES IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. , " MORTALITY, behold, and fear, What a charge of flesh is here ! Think how many royal bones Sleep...now want strength to stir their hands. Where from then1 pulpits seal'd in dust, They preach ' In greatness is no trust.' Here's an acre sown indeed With... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 páginas
...glory. — BISHOP HALL. ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. MORTALITY, behold and fear, What a charge of flesh is here ! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones : Hero they lie, had realms and lauds Who now want strength to stir their hands; Where from their pulpits... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...And fix ourselves new stars, crowned with our goodness. BEAUMONT. ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. MORTALITY, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here ! Think how many royal boucs Sleep within this heap of stones : Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 444 páginas
...Imagination and fancy, p. 211.] MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF BEAUMONT. ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTEB ABBEY. Mortality, behold and fear, "What a change of flesh...; Here they lie had realms and lands, Who now want help to stir their hands ; Where, from their pulpits, seal'd with dust, They preach, "In greatness... | |
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