 | Leslie Heber Thornton - 1925 - 340 pages
...Commander-in-Chief reciting Gray's Elegy. On finishing the lines: 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. Wolfe paused, as if expecting some appreciation of his efforts. None came; the silence... | |
 | George Sprau - 1925 - 370 pages
...stanza from Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard": "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." Here the object comes before the verb and its subject; but so little care and thought... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 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... | |
 | 1926 - 780 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... | |
 | Ali Foad Toulba - 1926 - 454 pages
...struggle, give utterance to the famous lines 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." 1 But the grave is not the end-all of our existence. In another world, in the Hereafter... | |
 | 1927 - 490 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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all faclonuri? ' shrieked : 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - 1928 - 398 pages
...questions. First of all the teacher will read out a verse "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." Now come the questions : — "Boast — first boy, how do you distinguish boast... | |
 | 1936 - 160 pages
...virtue of public integrity, have died. Truly, sir — 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 late Senator HUEY P. LONG was not cradled in luxury, nor were the muscles of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1938 - 184 pages
...be, as the philosopher poet has inscribed, 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. But, sir, while we may reconcile ourselves to that philosophy and recognize in it... | |
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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. 
