 | 1875 - 828 pages
...without hope."* How true it is 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 ! " Yet why should we wonder at such pompous vanity ! In 1768, a young married... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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... | |
 | 1872 - 506 pages
...sight in the direction of London.7 " 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." Although so large a number of writers have chronicled the life and doings of Sir... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 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... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 pages
...simpleness and duty teiujpr it. — Shak. 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 XVI.— RULE XII. Man's happiness or misery is, in a great measure,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
