 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The 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... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The 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 tb* inevitable hour :— The paths... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...Georg. iii. 639. " Labour him with many a sturdy stroke." Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The 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... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The 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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...Georg. iii. 639. " Labour him with many a sturdy stroke." Nor grandcur 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 weolth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. ss The paths... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The 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... | |
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Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The 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. 
