...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 alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead —but to the grave. Nor yon,...

...obscure, Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful »mile, 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 alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead —but to the grave. Nor you,...

...of death may now be extended, and you fall beneath its ruthless and indiscriminate sweep! The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Аи-ait alike, the inevitable hour; Thr potha of çlory, lead but to the pave,— (fray....

...victories? n In v, h.'it llght might the events of this war be considered ' SECTION XIII. " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await allke the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave." — GRAY. 6...

...to contend for the mastery." The English quatrain must be familiar to every body : — " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths -of glory lead but to the grave." And the following,...

...these victories? 14. In what light might the events of this war be considered ? SECTION XIII. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; The paiha of glory lead but to the grave — Gray. 1. (AD...

...'ELKOT' (8* S. v. 148).—In a 1768 edition of Gray's ' Poems/ the ninth stanza runs thus:— 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 (lory lead but to the grave. I have also consulted...

...difficulty to the readers of that exquisite poem. It stands, as the poet wrote it, thus : — ' The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave.' In this passage...

...hour " as the proper subject of " awaits," it being merely a case of transposition. As " the boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave," are transitory objects, Gray represented them as in some sort in motion, and "the inevitable...

...to the 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. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory...