| English poetry - 1814 - 676 pages
...EMPRESS CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, alt that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to tbe grave. Sounds the glad march of FREEDOM'S smiling train; With what sweet cadence does it... | |
| Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The biast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud' impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Where thro" the long-drawn aisle and... | |
| John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 352 pages
...these line* efGray arose in my mind : The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And nil that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave ; Await alike, th' inevitable hour; The paths of Glory lead but to the grare. SECT. CXXXVIII. A PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION, BY THE ELEGANT AWTHORESS* OF TH^ MYSTERIES... | |
| Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...fhort and iimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike, th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave ! Si Nor yoUi ye proud, impute to thefe the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
| Edwin B. Hamilton - Princesses - 1817 - 194 pages
...attending our history as a people. " The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, — The paths of glory lead but to the GRAVE ! " Our readers are already apprised, that on the demise of any Member of the Royal... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable...lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long drawn aisle and... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Pow'r, And all that Beauty,...lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Mem'ry o'er their tombs no trophies raise, Where through the long drawn aisle,... | |
| A. Yosy - 1823 - 304 pages
...infallibly overtake us at the last ! '•' The pride of wisdom, and the pomp of power, And all thai beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour — The paths of glory lead but to the grave !" ' How little do we know what a day may bring forth !' Over our fairest prospects,... | |
| Susan Linn De Witt - 1823 - 496 pages
...visit in the morning. CHAPTER II. " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour, — The paths of glory lead but to the grave." JUSTINA, on her return from church, entered the parlour, and found there assembled... | |
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