 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1826 - 284 pages
...Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest...;' And ' dust to dust' concludes her noblest song. 100 If this song lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine ; as the fox for wiles; Till Heath, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this...lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. RESIGNATION. THESE hearts, alas! cleave to the dust By strong and endless ties : Whilst ev'ry sorrow... | |
 | William Rae Wilson - Russia - 1828 - 782 pages
...pride, and ostentation, and blazoning human grandeur. These are, indeed, but empty names ; for — " Earth's highest station ends in ' here he lies ;' And ' dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song.'' To return from this digression : in the centre of the church are benches for the accommodation of the... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station end* in, " Here he lies." And " Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Ill-busied man 1 why should'st thou take such care To lengthen out thy life's short calendar? When... | |
 | John Cole - Burniston (England). - 1829 - 114 pages
...Sun himself by thy permission shines And, one day, thou shalt pluck him from his sphere. What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame, Earth's highest...ends in — here he lies. And dust to dust concludes his noblest song. South side of the chancel. In remembrance of Stephen, son of Stephen and Ruth Wharton,... | |
 | John Cole - Burniston (England). - 1829 - 118 pages
...Sun himself by thy permission shines And, one day, thou shalt pluck him from his sphere. What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame, Earth's highest...ends in — here he lies, And dust to dust concludes his noblest song. South side of the chancel. In remembrance of Stephen, son of Stephen and Ruth Wharton,... | |
 | John Hayward - Names, Geographical - 1829 - 530 pages
...several years was Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, died May 17th, Anno Salutis 1767, jEtatis 89. Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies ;"* And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. To the memory of Oliver Ellsworth, LL. D., an assistant in the Council, and a judge of the Superior... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...their crowns, and scholars with their volumes. "Why all this toil, the triumph of an hour? What, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest...lies!' And dust to dust concludes her noblest song!" " One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame 1 Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies," And...song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought e'en gold might come a day too late ; Nor... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of au hour ? What thoujrh we wade in weal. a, or eoarin faim1, s in the hearth, The crackling fagot flies. Bat And when he argues in favour of the immortality of man from the analogies of nature, with what exquisite... | |
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Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust 
