 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 Folly,...  The Edinburgh Review - Strana 1111873Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 str.
...And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust, While lackies in the saddle vaulted. Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's...comments on the old old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, lîuin. Hark to the РгеасЪег, preaching still ! He lifts his voice and cries his sermon, Here... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 890 str.
...morose 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...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... | |
 | 1881 - 588 str.
...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 - 1860 - 858 str.
...And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust, While lackies in the saddle vaulted. Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The treary King Ecclcsiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale. And... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 530 str.
...And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust, While lackeys in the saddle vaulted. Though thrice a thousand years are past Since David's...the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin. Hark to the Preacher, preaching still ! He lifts his voice and cries his sermon, Here at St. Peter's... | |
 | Rose Aylmer (fict. name.) - 1865 - 350 str.
...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 - 436 str.
...And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust, While lackeys in the saddle vaulted. Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's...on the old old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin. Hark to the Preacher, preaching still ! He lifts his voice and cries his sermon, Here at St. Peter's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 432 str.
...And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust, While lackeys in the saddle vaulted. Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's...on the old old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin. Hark to the Preacher, preaching still ! He lifts his voice and cries his sermon, Here at St. Peter's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 str.
...decrees of Fate are ; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! 522 S23 t. " Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's...left the lectures on the Four Georges and the English Humorists till the close, as they belong to a new and entirely distinct class of effort. Probably this... | |
 | 1874 - 614 str.
...minster, is a delicate example. A more familiar chord is struck in ' Vanitas Vanitatum : ' — ' 0 vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate...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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