 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...deftiny obfcure; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor, The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The fhort and fimplc annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful liuile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The bpaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 428 pages
...deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The lhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gaw, Await alike th' inevitable hour '. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Not Hos nee... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...deftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The Ihort and fimplc annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...deftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The short and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...obfcure; 30 Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | Thomas Sheridan - Elocution - 1796 - 292 pages
...bow'd the woods beneath their Jlurdy ftrokej Sturtfy — with Jlrcngth) and energy. • 9TH VERSE. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, An ait alike th' inevitable hour. (Here emh tie fcntenci.) The paths of glory lead but to... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1797 - 208 pages
...Gray, and Cook do seem to tontend for the mastery ; but above all in that famous stanza ; " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, " 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.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...obfcure : Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. 3i The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour : The paths uf glory lead but to the grave. 3^5 Nor you,... | |
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