 | United States. Congress - 1954 - 154 strani
...recall the stanza which reads as follows: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. I know that If Gray had known the kindness and the sweetness of Senator HOEY he would... | |
 | University of Colorado (Boulder campus) - 1906 - 314 strani
...end. 5. The Fatigue Motif.—But alas! The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. What are all the reason and learning of the world to the wretch entangled in those... | |
 | 1960 - 262 strani
...poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory 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 fretted... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1927 - 584 strani
...recited Gray's elegy, and the verse : "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave." I have not time to give any detail of Wolfe's victory on the Heights of Abraham,... | |
 | 1899 - 492 strani
...longer—by the watches of eternity? "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave." Permit me, by way of illustrating this theme, to make a variation on a much-worn... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1914 - 632 strani
...and serves as a forceful reminder that The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. The following are the names of those who have died within the year : BA Billings,... | |
 | Sara A. Levinsky, David Steindl-Rast - 1984 - 636 strani
...more mature script, from Grays Elegy: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. The pursuits and ambitions which captivate most men had lost their power to tempt... | |
 | Sara Ann Levinsky - 1984 - 634 strani
...more mature script, from Grab's Elegy. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. The pursuits and ambitions which captivate most men had lost their power to tempt... | |
 | Austin L. Sorenson - 1994 - 268 strani
...epitaph to the departed glory of Babylon: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Leonard Cottrell's comment is worthy of note: Nebuchadnezzar is only a name in the... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - 2000 - 268 strani
...returns to the file.) VOICE OF IRWIN. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all the beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (At Stage Left the light reveals JUDGE IRWIN, seated, reading to ANNE on a hassock... | |
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
