 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate - 1881 - 782 pages
...sheperd's crook beside the scepter." " 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." Though we have just seen a startling exemplification of the truth of these lines... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. 35 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 (ault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | 1849 - 570 pages
...advantages are but for a season. — " 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." Many are the instances in which those in lowly circumstances have raised themselves... | |
 | 1926 - 538 pages
...quoting from Gray's ' Elegy ' : — 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. " Gentlemen," said he, " I would sooner have written that poem than take Quebec."... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 pages
...of the wind." — Psalm xviii. 10. "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. :t Audire magnos jam videor duces Non indecoro pulvere sordidos ! ! "... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...- mind. The boast - of heraldry, the pomp - of power, And - all - that beauty, - all - that pomp - e'er - gave, Await^ - alike, - the inevitable-- hour ; The paths - of glory - lead - but - to the grave. He - that has - long - cultivated - the tree, and - pleased himself - with computing... | |
 | W. Daniell - 1850 - 408 pages
...! Great arbiter of life and death ! "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 " "A little pomp, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the great and... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beaut}', 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...short and simple aanals 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... | |
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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. 
