 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. 9. 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. 10. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. 9 The boast of heraldry, the pomp and 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. 10 Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...the surest means of prosperity. ' ' 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. LESSON XII. RULE XII. " Man's happiness or misery is, in a great measure,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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. Nolfyou, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tombs no trophies... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 390 pages
...the terraces of Versailles : — " 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." I will make one observation more, not unconnected with the general subject of the... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 948 pages
...the degrada- 1813. tion of France. " The boast of chivalry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave ; Await alike the inevitable...— The paths of glory lead but to the grave." The Old Guard halted at Rippail, near the spot where Bessieres had been slain the day before the battle... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...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 Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,, \ If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | John Barrow - 1841 - 404 pages
...to the careless observer, that — " The bout 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." Some of the graves, more carefully attended to than the greater part of them, had... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 234 pages
...great — they are again reminded that " 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." It has often struck me that profitable volumes might be gleaned from inscriptions... | |
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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. 
