 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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, Has seen this broken pile eomplete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little... | |
 | Scotland - 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 ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldering 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 sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there fall Hnge 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 ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 pages
...Rutherglen. * Tbe site of Queen-Street. CHAPTER II. REMARKABLE OLD EDIFICES FORMERLY EXTANT. ' 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." PRIOR. To a reflecting mind it is something more than merely amusing to mark the... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...painting of wonderful variety." Of many of these old buildings we may say : "Time, which brings the mighty low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state." In which we may still observe : " And all the hinder parts, that few could spy, Were ruinous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, . . . state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...weeds j While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall«. Yet time ha« seen, lect, where success would have been without applause,...diligence without reward. Among these unhappy morta state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...of wonderful variety." Of many of these old buildings we may say : " Time, which brings the mighty low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of slate." In which we may still observe : " And all the hinder parts, that few could spy, Were ruinous... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps2 of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, 1 Deep are his feet — Though this is a common-place metaphor in itself, yet its use here in pointing... | |
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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... 
