 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny 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 beaut}', all that wealth, e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour : The paths... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...33. " Very like," says the editor, (in a note to the Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...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... | |
 | Cam river - English poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 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 the inevitable hour : The paths... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; 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, the inevitable hour ; — The... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure, 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 the inevitable hour; — The paths... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 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 the inevitable hour; The paths of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; 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 the inevitable hour:— The paths... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : 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, the inevitable hour : The paths... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 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 the inevitable hour— The paths... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 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 the inevitable hour — The paths... | |
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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 the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
