 | William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...Country Church Yard" provides this insight: (752) The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. In a one-liner, Robert Louis Stevenson noted: (753) "Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast have a little Boat, Shaped like the crescent- moon....'She Was a Phantom of Delight' She was a phantom of but to the grave. 4292 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Can storied urn or animated bust Back... | |
 | John McRae - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 172 pages
...obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. I Notice that the rhyme need not be exact - 'obscure'/'poor'. Would you say these... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...alike th' 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... | |
 | Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, Tremper Longman III - Religion - 2010 - 1086 pages
...obstacle, but in death they meet their match. As the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray wrote, "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave" (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,... | |
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