...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...

...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...

...'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...

...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...

...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...

...Thomas Gray did in those lines in his Elegy addressed in particular to Ambition and Grandeur: 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.83 Gray presumably had in mind the pomp-filled proceedings he had witnessed within...

...as to contrast them. They share life as well as illusions. Death destroys the illusions: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, / And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave." But it does not put out the flame of life, which survives, perhaps only in epitaphs and...

...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,...wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: Nor you, ye Proud, impute to These the fault, If Memory o'er their Tomb no Trophies raise, Where through...

...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 th'inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. This version of village life, called...

...known, this is the one.") A few lines may serve to give the tone of Gray's pensive solitude: 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. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full...