 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...means of prosperity. ' ' 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." — Gray. LESSON XII. RULE XII. " Man's happiness or misery is, in a great measure,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...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 Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,, \ If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 948 pages
...1813. tion of France. " The boast of chivalry, 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." The Old Guard halted at Rippail, near the spot where Bessieres had been slain the... | |
 | John Barrow - 1841 - 404 pages
...observer, that — " The bout 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." Some of the graves, more carefully attended to than the greater part of them, had... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 234 pages
...again reminded that " 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." It has often struck me that profitable volumes might be gleaned from inscriptions... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1844 - 278 pages
...again reminded that " The boast of heraldry, the pomp ef 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." It has often struck me that profitable volume* might be gleaned from inscriptions... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pages
...vanity is inscribed. " 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." What Cardinal Wolsey said on his bed of death confirms it — " Vain pomp and glory... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...to every body : — "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beanty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths...recollection of it, is the exact Greek version of Cook : — Saga, xa.1 xai ii%tro uvov if Now really these verses, by force of a little mosaic tcsselatiou... | |
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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. 
