| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...obscure; 30 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,...alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault. If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
| William Gerber - 1997 - 252 páginas
...Country Church Yard" provides this insight: (752) The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. In a one-liner, Robert Louis Stevenson noted: (753) "Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."... | |
| John McRae - 1998 - 172 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,...alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. I Notice that the rhyme need not be exact - 'obscure'/'poor'. Would you say these... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 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,...alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast have a little Boat, Shaped like the crescent- moon....'She Was a Phantom of Delight' She was a phantom of but to the grave. 4292 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Can storied urn or animated bust Back... | |
| Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, Tremper Longman III - 2010 - 1086 páginas
...obstacle, but in death they meet their match. As the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray wrote, "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave" (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 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, Awaits alike lh' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Kleifíl Written in « Coimfrií Churchyard... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 páginas
...104-5.] Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 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 proud,... | |
| Stephanie Sandler - 1999 - 388 páginas
...obscure; 30 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, ^ fe "S: • Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. 3 5 The paths of glory lead but to the grave.... | |
| William Blake - 2000 - 132 páginas
...ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and dcftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The !hon and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of... | |
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