| John Bell - 1799 - 436 pages
...ruins, muss, 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, t$ Has seen this broken pile complete, 1 Big with the vanity of state : r But transient is the smile... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...ruins, moss, 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...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, Js... | |
| John Britton - 1815 - 1086 pages
...in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon there fall Huge heaps of hoary mouldered wall. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; — But transient is the smile of fate." 1 See also the pedigree of Mr. Johnes of Havod, given in... | |
| John Evans - 1804 - 440 pages
...ruin, moss, and weeds; \.\ While ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays...broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transieht is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A Sun-beam in a winter's day.... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...weeds; \ While , ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd wall*. Yet time has been that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow...broken pile complete ) Big with the vanity of state ; > But transient is the smile of fate ; J A little rule ,,a little sway , A sun-beam in a -winter's... | |
| John Evans - 1804 - 482 pages
...abrupt hill, covered with woods, appear the ivied walls and rugged turrets of Dinefawr Castle. " Yet time has seen that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile compleat, Big with the vanity of state." I before observed that this was the seat of the South Wallian... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 584 pages
...monuments of the devastations produced by time. We are reminded of the word of the poet, Time hat wen, 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 way, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and... | |
| 1806 - 330 pages
...ruins, moss, 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...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,... | |
| 1806 - 234 pages
...weeds; f While ever and anon there falls, f Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has been that lifts the low. And level lays the lofty brow,...this broken pile complete. Big with the vanity of stile. - ' After traversing the ruins of Caerphilly till we were fatigued, we procured some homely... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...and weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has been, 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... | |
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