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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 th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 288
edited by - 1779
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The Muse's Pocket Companion. A Collection of Poems: By Lord Carlisle. Lord ...

1785 - 304 pages
...pow'r Ar.d all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gate, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The p.:thi of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to Thefe the fault, If Mem'ry o'er .their Tomb no Trophies raife, Wheie through the long-drawn ifle and fretted vault The...
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Poems

Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour....lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to tViefe the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raife, Where thro' the long-drawn ifle and...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And aH that beauty,. all that weafth, e'er gave,-- Await, alike, th' inevitable hour : The...glory lead — but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impflte to thefe the fault, If Hiera'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raife, Where, through the long-drawn...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 64

English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power,. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the graven Nor you, ye Proud, impute to thefe the fault,, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...fimplc annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that Mor mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raife, Wherethro' the long-drawn ifle and fretted vault, The pealing...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
....pow'r, And all that beauty, all that health e'er gave, Await, alike, th'inevitublc hour; . The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to thefc the fault, if mem'iy o'er their tomb no trnphies raife. Where thro' the long-drawn i!e and fretted...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
...fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour;...grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to thefe the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raife , Where thro' the long-drawn ile and fretted vault, The pealing...
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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - 1792 - 284 pages
...fimple annals of the poor. The boafl of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, al! that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour...Nor you, ye proud ! impute to thefe the fault, If mcm'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raife ; Where thro' the long drawn aifle and fretted vault, The...
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the english anthology

T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...pow'r, And all that beauty, all that 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 Thefe the fault, Jf Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raife, Where through the long-drawn ' aifle' and fretted vault...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 10

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 pages
...that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike, the inevitable' hour. The paths of glory load but to the grave. / Nor you, ye proud, impute to thefe...fwells the note of praife. Can ftoried urn or animated bu!l Back to its manfum call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the filent duft. Or flattery...
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