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 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 Seiten
...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 - 1810 - 680 Seiten
...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 - 1810 - 682 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 678 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 670 Seiten
...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 - 1815 - 376 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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