| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has...lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this broken pile compleat, -j Big with the vanity of flate ; > But tranfient is the fmile of fate... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day,... | |
| John Britton - Architecture - 1815 - 1086 pages
...moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon there fall Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; — But transient is the smile of fate." 1 See also the pedigree of Mr. Johnes of Havod, given... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...in ruins, moss, and weeds; \ While , ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd wall*. Yet time has been that lifts the low, And level lays...this broken pile complete ) Big with the vanity of state ; > But transient is the smile of fate ; J A little rule ,,a little sway , A sun-beam in a -winter's... | |
| John Evans - Wales, North - 1804 - 440 pages
...weeds; \.\ While ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transieht is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A Sun-beam in a winter's... | |
| John Evans - Wales - 1804 - 482 pages
...covered with woods, appear the ivied walls and rugged turrets of Dinefawr Castle. " Yet time has seen that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile compleat, Big with the vanity of state." I before observed that this was the seat of the South Wallian... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...the fox fecurely feeds, -. And there the pois'nous adder breeds, L While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has...lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen the broken pile complete, -t Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds : J But tranfient is the fmile... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 584 pages
...monuments of the devastations produced by time. We are reminded of the word of the poet, Time hat wen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow ; Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanities of state. A little rule, a little way, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has...lofty brow, Has 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 sun-beam... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...weeds; J While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow,...broken pile complete, •) Big with the vanity of state ; , But transient is the smile of fate ! ) A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's... | |
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