 | Marie-Joseph Chénier, Antoine-Vincent Arnault, D. Ch Robert, Pierre Claude François Daunou - 1829
...short and simple annals of the poor. 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. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o' er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | 1829 - 20 pages
...falling on the leading caesura : " 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. It is remarkable that these instances are mostly found in words derived from... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829
...ancient veins, ere heraldry began. Id. 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'* Elegy. Pluck the others, but still remember Their Herald out of dim December—-... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 276 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. 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. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Pinnock, William Cooke Taylor - Great Britain - 1831 - 507 pages
...war be considered ? SECTION XIII. " 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." — GRAY. G. Enthu'siasm, a. heat of the imagina- I 9. Predilec'tion, s. prepossession... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 882 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. 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. Kor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1833 - 242 pages
...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, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - Scotland - 1833 - 242 pages
...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 yon, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835
...witness the degradation of France. " The boast of chivalry, 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 ! " The Old Guard halted at Rippail, near the spot where Bessieres had been slain... | |
 | 1835
...Simplicity of Character. .,,, B. STANZAS. " 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." And more— the lyre of genius, must be swept By the unfeeling touch of death's... | |
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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. 
