 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 252 페이지
...irony: There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Lines longer than the norm, like the alexandrine in the following example, generate a sense of stretch... | |
 | Mike Royston - 1998 - 223 페이지
...There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown 5 Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: 10 But their strong... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 128 페이지
...There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: s Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, 10 And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 2001 - 202 페이지
...struck more men than women, but made little distinction between classes. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. As a result, infected persons were deserted by neighbours, family members and physicians. Some doctors,... | |
 | Mark Pryce - 2001 - 160 페이지
...things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong... | |
 | Thomas St Nicholas - 2002 - 492 페이지
...blood and state') includes the lines Death lays his icy hand on Kings, Scepter and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made, With the poor crooked sithe and spade. (The Poems of James Shirley, ed. Ray Livingstone Armstrong, New York, 1941, p. 54)... | |
 | Kathleen Spaltro, Noeline Bridge - 2005 - 322 페이지
...evolved into a shrewd and cynical ruler whose memories reminded him that "Sceptre and crown must tumble down / And in the dust be equal made / With the poor crooked scythe and spade." Two-and-a-half years after the 1649 execution of his father, Charles I, in 1651 Charles II lost the... | |
 | Xiuguo Zhang - 2005 - 268 페이지
...missile. 9.The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden, 10.Scepter and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked Scythe and Spade. (James Shirley) 11.Constant dropping wears the stone, (proverb) 12.They had to bear the pitiless wind... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 265 페이지
...things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill, But their strong... | |
 | John Carey - 2006 - 286 페이지
...things. There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings, Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made, With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Shortly before James Shirley wrote that, death had laid its icy hand on Charles I on a scaffold in... | |
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 
