 Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every day renewing, Fresh comments on the old, old tale Of...  The Complete Poems of W. M. Thackeray - Strona 116autor: William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - Liczba stron: 226Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1881 - Liczba stron: 588
...How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin." ' The Ballads of Policeman X.' have long been famous. They appeared in the pages of Punch, with which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - Liczba stron: 890
...and narrow-minded ! Come turn the page — I read the next, And then the next, and stUl I find it. Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin. COCKNEY TRAVELS.i BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. NOTE. T My Father used to keep many of his papers... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - Liczba stron: 858
...David's son, the sad and splendid, The treary King Ecclcsiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale. And life is every...comments on the old old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, lluin. Hark to the Preacher, preaching still! He lifts his voice and cries his sermon, Here at St.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - Liczba stron: 858
...Fresh comments on the old old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, lîuin. Hark to the РгеасЪег, preaching still ! He lifts his voice and cries his...St. Peter's of Cornhill, As yonder on the Mount of Hormon : For you and me to heart to take (O dear beloved brother readers) To-day, as when the good... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - Liczba stron: 530
...David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...Mount of Hermon : For you and me to heart to take (G dear beloved brother readers) To-day, as when the good King spake Beneath the solemn Syrian cedars.... | |
 | Rose Aylmer (fict. name.) - 1865 - Liczba stron: 350
...wayward the decrees of fate are ! How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...the old, old tale Of folly, fortune, glory, ruin. THACKERAY. A gentleman stands at the door of an aristocratic residence in Clarges Street, and asks... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - Liczba stron: 432
...David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...voice and cries his sermon, Here at St. Peter's of Comhill, As yonder on the Mount of Hermon : For you and me to heart to take (O dear beloved brother... | |
 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 610
...David's son the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — ' Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...the old, old tale, Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin.' In noticing the various works of Thackeray thus briefly, we have purposely left the lectures on the... | |
 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 610
...son the sad and splendid, Tho weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — ' Metbinks the text is never stale, And life is every day renewing...comments on the old, old tale, Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Kuin.' In noticing the various works of Thackeray thus briefly, we have purposely left the lectures... | |
 | 1874 - Liczba stron: 618
...David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — ' Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...comments on the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Euin.' The only other representative poet of society belonging to our own time whose name occurs in... | |
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