 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 oldal
...proverb should be in one line ; but the privilege may be extended to so fine a saying as the celebrated " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies ' ; And ' dust to dust ' concludes her noblest song." It would be well if some of those loudest in their praises of Young would bear in mind the following... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 402 oldal
...those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's highest station ends in Here lie lies ! And dust to dust concludes her noblest song ! The author of these lines is not without his... | |
 | Collection - 1821 - 336 oldal
...nature of our enjoyments, and on the instability of all earthly possessions. They tell us, that " Though we wade in wealth or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in—Here he lies !" As I have endeavoured to make it a useful and instructive collection, I am not... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 oldal
...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...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 on... | |
 | 1822 - 382 oldal
...FRONTISPIECE. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth or soar in fain, , Earth's highest station ends in—' Here he lies,' And dust to dust concludes her noblest song. LONDON: Yousc. PRINTED FOR G. & WB WIIITTAKER, 13, AVE MARIA LANE, C. THURNAM, ENGLISH-STREET, CARLISLE,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 oldal
...those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame! Earth's highest station ends in Here he lies ! Aud dust to dust concludes her noblest song ! The author of these lines is not without his Hie jacet.... | |
 | Collection - 1823 - 334 oldal
...FRONTFMFri:, WILLIAM GRAHAM, LAND SURVEYOR. Why all this toil for triumphs 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. YOUNC. LONDON : PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES-STREET, HiNOVER-SQUARE j ANDSC. THURNAM, CARLISLE.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 oldal
...those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's highest station ends in Here he lies ! And dmt to dust concludes her noblest song ! z 3 The author of these lines is not without his Hie jacet.... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 oldal
...life is most enjoy'd, When courted least ; most worth, when disesteem'd. Young's Night Thoughts, n. 3. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho'...:" And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Ibid, n. 4. Behold the picture of earth's happiest man : He calls his wish, it comes ; he sends it... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1824 - 294 oldal
...had thrice wept. By its side, another speaks, in its marble stillness, the words of the moral poet, " What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's...And " dust to dust!" concludes her noblest song." Let the stranger, who discovers these vestiges, know that his foot presses the dust of her, of whom... | |
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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 
