Await 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 vault The pealing anthem swells the note... The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 113by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...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, ye Proud!...of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeted breath? — Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust — Or Flattery... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fietted vault,. The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? C an honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle,, and fretted vaultr The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? C an honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery... | |
| Scotland - 1828 - 988 pages
...Through this midnight hush — methinks I hear faint and far off a sacred music, — " Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise !" How steeped in the beauty of moonregrets, took refuge in forgetfulness, light are all those... | |
| Briar's hall - Children's stories, English - 1828 - 400 pages
...I have chosen is laid in a more magnificent place than eren the tent of royalty. It isWhen through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. HENRY. That is a quotation from my favourite Gray. You are taking us into a cathedral, I perceive,... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Ner you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...matter. SKI ft. I have read a book imputed to lord Bathurat, called a dissertation on parties. Id. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Gray: Elegy. IN, prep. Lat. in. Noting the place where any thing is present ; not without.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...you, ye Proud, impute to these the fanlt If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through Now I know what it is to have strove With the torture...desire ; What it is to admire and to love, las : Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregimut with celestial flre ; Hands that the... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 vault The pealing...of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe... | |
| Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 pages
...elaborate trophies which human ingenuity has been able to erect in loftier temples : — " Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." ',м Kv,:y . s CUMRERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 27 The illustrative view, taken from... | |
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