 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...Thomas Gray did in those lines in his Elegy addressed in particular to Ambition and Grandeur: 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.83 Gray presumably had in mind the pomp-filled proceedings he had witnessed within... | |
 | Bunn - 1990 - 214 pages
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 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...as to contrast them. They share life as well as illusions. Death destroys the illusions: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, / And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave." But it does not put out the flame of life, which survives, perhaps only in epitaphs and... | |
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th 
