 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 strani
...simpleness and duty teiujpr it. — Shak. 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. — Gray. LESSON XVI.— RULE XII. Man's happiness or misery is, in a great measure,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate - 1881 - 782 strani
...sheperd's crook beside the scepter." " 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." Though we have just seen a startling exemplification of the truth of these lines... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 strani
...short and simple annals of the poor. 35 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable...but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the (ault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 strani
...of the wind." — Psalm xviii. 10. "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." — Gray. :t Audire magnos jam videor duces Non indecoro pulvere sordidos ! ! "... | |
 | 1926 - 538 strani
...quoting from Gray'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. " Gentlemen," said he, " I would sooner have written that poem than take Quebec."... | |
 | 1849 - 570 strani
...advantages are but for a season. — " 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." Many are the instances in which those in lowly circumstances have raised themselves... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 strani
...joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple aanals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,...but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Can storied urn and animated bust Back to its... | |
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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. 
