 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 sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and...  The British Essayists;: The Looker-on - Page 156by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there fall Hnge heaps of hoary, mouldered wall. Yet time has seen — that lifts the low. And level lays...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 day, Is all the proud... | |
 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 pages
...borough of Rutherglen. * Tbe site of Queen-Street. CHAPTER II. REMARKABLE OLD EDIFICES FORMERLY EXTANT. ' Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...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 - 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 and old,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...moss, and weeds j While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall«. Yet time ha« t sd Bkܡ U] R w ߪi8 Gi / w 1 3` J { -&w:h f Qڪ.... } }> ߲ > J q $Ӯ %mk (* 3 is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...ruins, moss, and 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... | |
 | William Goodman - 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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there fall Huge heaps of hoary, moulder'd wall. Yet time has seen — that lifts the low, And level lays...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 day, Is all the proud... | |
 | William Goodman - 1847 - 336 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 state." In which we may still observe : " And all the hinder parts, that few could spy, Were ruinous and old,... | |
 | M Joseph Denison - 1849 - 276 pages
...GENTLEMAN PADDOCK FOR HORSES PAST LABOUR, NEAR AN OLD RUIN, CALLED MACDUFF'S CASTLE. " Yet time has been, that lifts the low, " And level lays the lofty brow...broken pile complete, " Big with the vanity of state." Dyer. THE gen'rous steed — once favourite of the fair, Caress' d and pamper'd by a master's care... | |
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