 OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift, fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.  Documents Accompanying the Journal - Страница 735по Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1881Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1904 - 610 страници
...is done ! SIMON WASTELL. MORTALITY. O WHY should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the. lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1905 - 352 страници
...pictures of a noble and creative " Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud t Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to rest in the grave. " The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together... | |
 | 1906 - 810 страници
...SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 5 Mortal. — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning,...wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. WILLIAM KNOX, Oh, Why Should the Spirit, etc., st. i All men think all men mortal but themselves. YOUNG,... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Theron Brown - 1906 - 644 страници
...being the first and two last — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to rest in the grave. ****** Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together like sunshine... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Theron Brown - 1906 - 638 страници
...— Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ) Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cl jud A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to rest in the grave. ****** Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together like sunshine... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Theron Brown - 1906 - 752 страници
...being the first and two last — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud. A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passedi from life to rest in the grave. ****** Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain. Are mingled... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 356 страници
...before the name, of "Immortality." It reads thus : Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift, fleeting meteor — a fast-flying cloud...— He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; And the... | |
 | Benson Bidwell - 1907 - 286 страници
...earn it, we are led to exclaim : "O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning,...wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave." Remember, though a man handles the plough or hammers the anvil, yet, in the words of the immortal Burns... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 страници
...first verse runs as follows : " Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning,...wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave." The poem goes on to expatiate on the equalisation of all ranks in the democracy of death ; and tells... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1908 - 584 страници
...preluding the pensive strain with "Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning,...wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave." As late as March, 1864, he repeated at the White House with strong feeling the poem, which was for... | |
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