 | Book - 1841 - 164 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 tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and... | |
 | Hawks Le Grice - Sculptors - 1841 - 462 pages
...THORWALDSEN -S SEPULCRAL MONUMENTS. " 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. " If aught were wanting to establish the universality of Thorwaldsen's genius , it... | |
 | George B. Scott - 1842 - 354 pages
...; 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,...alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave."— GHAT. IT was one of those May mornings, which to fully enjoy, we must be removed... | |
 | Charles Roger Dod - Great Britain - 1843 - 696 pages
...LIFE AMONG MEMBERS OF THE PEERAGE. " 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." GRAT. THE duration of life in different classes of society will of course be found... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory 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 through the long-drawn aisle and... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory 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 through the long-drawn aisle and... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1999 - 524 pages
...104-5.] Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 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 aile and... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...of redemption with Pope's earthbound, cheerless perspective. 7.2.4 GRAY, LONELY MEDITATOR The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. — Thomas Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" One of the best known poems... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...Poor. The Boast of Heraldry, the Pomp of Pow'r, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable Hour. The Paths of Glory 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 Isle and Fretted... | |
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And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
