 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 318 pages
...to contend for the mastery.' The English quatrain must be familiar to every body : — ' 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.' And the following,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 322 pages
...seem to contend for the mastery.' The English quatrain must be familiar to every body: — ' 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.' And the following,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 pages
...seem to contend for the mastery.' The English quatrain must be familiar to every body: — ' 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.' And the following,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...stroke." 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, Await alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...to contend for the mastery.' The English quatrain must be familiar to every body : — ' 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.' And the following,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...stroke." Nor grandcur 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 weolth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. ss The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1854 - 102 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, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 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, all that wealth, e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead—but to the grave. Nor you,... | |
 | James A. Wade - Abbeys - 1861 - 430 pages
...master-trait of every passion that sways the human breast." MELROSE ABBEY. — THE TOMBS. " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that worth e'er gave ; Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. " GRAY.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...deftiny obfcure ; Nor 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, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
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