 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The Ihort and fimplc fuppliant's head, Dread Goddefs, lay thy chaft'ning hand ! Mot in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Mor e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...Their homely joys, and 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
...homely joys, and deftiny 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.... | |
 | Children's stories - 1797 - 350 pages
...homely joys and deftiny obfcure, Nor grandeur here, with a difdainful finiley The fliort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, All that beauty — all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th* inevitable hour ; The paths to glory... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...deftiny 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,... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...homely joys, and 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... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - English literature - 1799 - 786 pages
...paflages, Nature, Cray, and Cook feem to contend fur the mattery ; but above all in that great ftanza ; " The boaft 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." GIAY. A... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - English poetry - 1799 - 656 pages
...palfages, Nature, Gray, and Cook feem to conlead for the mattery ; but above all in that great ftanza , " The boaft 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. A... | |
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