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" Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin; Here the bones of birth have cried, "Though gods they were, as men they died"; Here are sands, ignoble things Dropt from the... "
Beaumont and Fletcher: Or, The Finest Scenes, Lyrics, and Other Beauties of ... - Page 357
by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 363 pages
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...hands. Where from their pulpits seal'd in dust, They preach ' In greatness is no trust.' Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed That the...Gods they were, as men they died. Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropp'd from the ruin'd sides of kings. Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...hands. Where from their pulpits seal'd in dust, They preach ' In greatness is no trust.' Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed That the...Gods they were, as men they died. Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropp'd from the ruin'd sides of kings. Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...palace ; and that in many a royal cemetery — " Here 's an acre sown indeed With the richest royal seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin. Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the royal sides of kings." Well might Napoleon, in the plenitude...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 7

1824 - 624 pages
...palace ; and that in many a royal cemetery — " Here 'e an acre sown indeed With the richest royal seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for .-in. Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the royal sides of kings." happiest period of his...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

1826 - 310 pages
...hand» Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust, They preach, in greatness is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest, royal'st seed, That...bones of birth have cried, Though gods they were, yet men they died : Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropp'd from the ruin'd sides of kings. Here's...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...dust They preach, "In greatness is no trust." Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest royallest seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first...gods they were, as men they died!" Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the niin'd sides of kings: Here's a world of pomp and state Buried iu dust,...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 pages
...Where, from their pulpits seal'd with dust, They preach — in greatness is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, That...gods they were, as men they died : Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings. Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust,...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 pages
...Where, from their pulpits seal'd with dust, They preach — in greatness is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, That...gods they were, as men they died : Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings. Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust,...
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The Church Magazine, Volumes 6-7

1844 - 582 pages
...duet, They preach, 'In greatness is no trust " Here's an acre, sown indeed Wth the richest royall'st seed That the earth did e'er suck in, Since the first man dy'd for sin." The multitude of monuments which it contains, from that of King Henry III. upwards (omitting,...
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The sacred cabinet of literature and art. Pr

Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...preach — in greatness is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, 104 That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man...Though gods they were, as men they died Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings. Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust,...
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