 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 strani
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; .Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 strani
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure j Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...— The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor yon, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 strani
...or genius e'er conspired to bless.] The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable...lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud ! impute to these2 the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle... | |
 | 1845 - 816 strani
...must be familiar to every body : — "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beanty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave." And the following, we believe, though quoting from a thirty-three years' recollection... | |
 | 1875 - 828 strani
...without hope."* How true it is 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 ! " Yet why should we wonder at such pompous vanity ! In 1768, a young married... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 264 strani
...great — they are again reminded 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." It has often struck me that profitable volumes might be gleaned from inscriptions... | |
 | 1846 - 436 strani
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...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... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 strani
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure f Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...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... | |
 | 1872 - 506 strani
...sight in the direction of London.7 " 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." Although so large a number of writers have chronicled the life and doings of Sir... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 strani
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...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... | |
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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. 
