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" 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. "
The New England Magazine - Page 595
1906
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Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets

John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pages
...difdain* fully at the annals of the poor' V. 33. The boaft 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. * This ftanza is characterized by energy, and melody, in the higheft degree. Poetry...
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A Trip Home; with Some Home-spun Yarns

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...
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Notes and Queries

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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Notes and Queries, Volume 56

1877 - 668 pages
...Ulceby. " AWAITS " (5th S. vii. 166, 274, 439.)— " The boast of her.ildry, 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." I must confess that until I saw the criticisms in " N. & Q." I never thought there...
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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, Volume 2

Sir William Hamilton - 1870 - 590 pages
...same contrast illuminates the stanza of Gray : " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour ; The patha of glory lead but to the grave." And in what else does the beauty of the following line consist,...
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Elegy written in a country churchyard. (Incipit Thomae Grai ... Elegorum ...

Thomas Gray - 1873 - 40 pages
...disdainful smile the 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 awaits 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...
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Gray's Elegy, tr. by H. Sewell. Amici recensuerunt, Volume 13

Thomas Gray - 1875 - 56 pages
...suporbo Deneget obscuri quœrere gesta loci. IX. The boast of heraldry, the pomp uf 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. IX. Quicquid honos, vel opes vel pukhne gratia formic Vel Majestatis pompa superba...
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Notes and Queries

1877 - 574 pages
...Some remarks on the following stanza of Gray, — ' 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,' — seemed to me so contrary to the received opinion, that [ looked into the matter....
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Between whiles, or Wayside amusements of a working life [an anthology of ...

Between whiles - 1877 - 448 pages
...disdainful smile the 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 awaits 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...
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Traveller ...: With Introduction, Life of the Author, Argument, & Notes

Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 pages
...disdainful smile, The 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, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory...
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