 I'd say, how fate may change and shift; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be a vulgar clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down.  Doctor Birch and His Young Friends - Página 47por William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 49 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1862 - 394 páginas
...fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall,. The great...Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave ?* * CB Ob. 29 Nov. 1848. set IS. We bow to Heaven that will'd it so, That darkly rales the fate of... | |
 | 1853 - 842 páginas
...fate may change and shift; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast piteously down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be he who took and gave! Why should your... | |
 | 1849 - 638 páginas
...fate may change and shift ; The prize lie sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...weeping at her darling's grave ?* We bow to Heaven that willed it so, That darkly rules the fate of all, That sends the respite or the blow, That 's free to... | |
 | 1853 - 800 páginas
...sometimes witb the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may full, The great man be a vulgar clown. The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast piteously down. Who knows the inscrutable design Т Blessed be he who took nnd gave ! Why should your... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 páginas
...fate may change and shift ; o The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...weeping at her darling's grave ? * We bow to Heaven that willed it so, That darkly rules the fate of all, That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 páginas
...fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...inscrutable design? Blessed be He who took' and gave ! AVhy should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave? We bow to Heaven that... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 páginas
...fate may change and shift ; The prize 1x3 sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...down. Who knows the inscrutable design? Blessed be lle who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave?... | |
 | 1861 - 100 páginas
...prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good ma\ fall,. The great man be a vulgar clown,. The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly dowrr. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed be He who took and gave ! Why should your mother,... | |
 | 1862 - 394 páginas
...fate may change and shift ; The prize be sometimes with the fool, The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall,. The great...pitilessly down. Who knows the inscrutable design ? Blessed he He who took and gave ! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave... | |
 | 1864 - 30 páginas
...shows as he removes the mask A face that's anything but gay." And his moral is always the same : — " The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great...lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down. " Who bade the dust from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus? Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel,... | |
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