| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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... | |
| Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - 1841 - 448 pages
...Parse the following sentences : — 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. 2. The sun that shone bright all the day Has now gone quite out of our sight ; And... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1915 - 666 pages
...poet's view of life when he says: " 'The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And nil that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the inevitable...hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.' "The path of glory does not, in the truest sense, lead to the grave, but those who have lived for others... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 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... | |
| 1859 - 880 pages
...highly prizes, vanity is inscribed. " 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." What Cardinal Wolsey said on his bed of death confirms it — " Vain pomp and glory... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1844 - 278 pages
...great — they are again reminded that " The boast of heraldry, the pomp ef 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 volume* might be gleaned from inscriptions... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of poweV, And all that beauty, built its neet in the Peak of Derbyshire.— (See Willtnii)hl>!f'is Ornithology, publi but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And. all that beauty, 844 leaU but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
| 1845 - 816 pages
...must be familiar to every body : — "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beanty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave." And the following, we believe, though quoting from a thirty-three years' recollection... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1845 - 264 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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