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, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Notes and Queries - Page 581877Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Thomas Warton - 1753 - 164 pages
...grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The mort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft 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. Forgive, ye proud, th' involuntary fault,... | |
| 1753 - 164 pages
...grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and dimple annals of the poor. The boafl 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. Forgive, ye proud, th' involuntary fault,... | |
| John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft 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. E Forgive, ye proud, th' involuntary... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 pages
...Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boafl 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 Thefe... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...Grandeur hear -with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. 9The boaft 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. • / i0k Nor you, ye Proud, impute... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 492 pages
...of ' Grandeur fmiling difdain' fully at the annals of the poor.' - ^ • 33' ^*ne boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth...alike the inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. This ftanza is characterized by energy, and melody, in the higheft degree. Poetry... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - 390 pages
..." 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 will make one observation more, not unconnected with the general subject of the reign, and conclude.... | |
| Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...noble, and wealthy families — thus proving that " 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/' Gray. In perusing the inscriptions on the different monuments, one character struck... | |
| 1877 - 564 pages
...readers of that exquisite poem. It stands, as the poet wrote it, thus : — ' 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.' In this passage the words ' inevitable... | |
| 1894 - 664 pages
...'ELBOY.'—Most editions now contain the reading— The bout of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour, instead of await, the reading adopted in most editions for a century past. Oan any of your readers... | |
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