 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of poweV, And all that beauty, built its neet in the Peak of Derbyshire.— (See Willtnii)hl>!f'is Ornithology, publi but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And. all that beauty, 844 leaU but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 8 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, 9 The boast of heraldry, the pomp and power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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 yon, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...or genius e'er conspired to bless.] 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 these2 the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | England - 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... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Christian life - 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... | |
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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. 
