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 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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 ajrle th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...opus! Nec fronte exoipiat ventosa Supcrbi.i torv» Puuperis auuaicj, historiasque breves! The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...wealth e'er gave, Await 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...orais! Nf'1 fronte exeipiat ventosa Superbia torvm J'auoeris annalea, historiasque breves! 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 glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | Evan Jones - 1810 - 176 pages
...neighbouring peasantry, arrived in time to snatch my dear offspring from eternal ruin. CHAP. XVL The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave.— Gray. Yet say what more can Heav'n on you bestow, In your bright path increasing blessings... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...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, Await 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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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, Await 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 678 pages
...the author was living. IRREGULAR ODE. ON THE DEATH OF THE EMPRESS CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. HARK to that paean song, whose choral lay Sounds the glad... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 670 pages
...the author was living. IRREGULAR ODE. ON THE DEATH OF THE EMPRESS CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. HARK to that paean song, whose choral lay Sounds the glad... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The biast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...wealth e'er gave. Await 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...obscure; SO 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, VARIATIONS. Ver. 25. Sickle] Sickles, Ms. W. NOTES. Ver. 27. How jocund did they drive their... | |
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