 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of lioary 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 j But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder' d walls. Yet time as seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, V Big with the vanity of state ; V. But transient is the smile of fate ! j A little rule, a little... | |
 | James Storer - Architecture - 1811 - 318 pages
...still remains, was the refectory, and is now converted into a stable and offices. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow — Has seen this broken pile complete,i] Big with the vanity of state i But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little... | |
 | Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) - 1812 - 322 pages
...the devastations produced by time. We are reminded of the words of the poet, Prior, " Time has seen, 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 sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and... | |
 | John Feltham - 1813 - 368 pages
...Castle, which perhaps should have been mentioned before. THE CASTLE. Time, which brings the mighty low. And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state. • On the hill to the westward of the town are the remains of this large and ancient structure,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1815 - 1092 pages
...there fall Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low. And level Inys the lofty brow. Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of ttate ¡ — But transient a the smile of fate." T See also the pedigree of Mr. Johnei of Havod, given... | |
 | Dawlish (England) - 1817 - 296 pages
...and 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,...this broken pile complete, ~) Big with the vanity of state ; > But transient is the smile of fate. J In the church at Berry Pomeroy, which was built by... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 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 1 A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | James Storer - Architecture - 1817 - 208 pages
...which, viewed from the beacb, has a very majestic and awful appearance. Time, which brings the mighty low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state. It resembles, in shape, nearly two sides of an oblique spherical triangle with the points ruunded... | |
 | William Upcott - 1818 - 740 pages
...in Derbyshire. By THO. BLORE, of the Society of the Middle Temple, and FSA" " . . . . Time has seen, that lifts the low And level lays the lofty brow;...this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state." - . . DYER'S Grongar Hill. MDCCXCIII. The History of the Manor of South Wingfield, dedicated... | |
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Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the 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 in a winter's day, Is all the proud... 
