| 1843 - 604 páginas
...of death may now be extended, and you fall beneath its ruthless and indiscriminate sweep! The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Аи-ait alike, the inevitable hour; Thr potha of çlory, lead but to the pave,— (fray.... | |
| Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 298 páginas
...obscure, Nor Grandeur hcar 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, all that wealth, e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 páginas
...victories? n In v, h.'it llght might the events of this war be considered ' SECTION XIII. " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await allke the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave." — GRAY. 6... | |
| 1845 - 842 páginas
...to contend for the mastery." The English quatrain must be familiar to every body : — " 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." And the following,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1846 - 482 páginas
...these victories? 14. In what light might the events of this war be considered ? SECTION XIII. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; The paiha of glory lead but to the grave — Gray. 1. (AD... | |
| 1877 - 564 páginas
...difficulty to the readers of that exquisite poem. It stands, as the poet wrote it, thus : — ' 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.' In this passage the words ' inevitable hour ' are evidently used, by a poetical... | |
| 1894 - 664 páginas
...'ELKOT' (8* S. v. 148).—In a 1768 edition of Gray's ' Poems/ the ninth stanza runs thus:— The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gare, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of (lory lead but to the grave. I have also consulted... | |
| 1877 - 668 páginas
...hour " as the proper subject of " awaits," it being merely a case of transposition. As " the boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave," are transitory objects, Gray represented them as in some sort in motion, and "the inevitable... | |
| 1851 - 278 páginas
...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, all that Wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
| Barbara Lloyd Evans - 1989 - 1238 páginas
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