 | Collection - 1755 - 378 pages
...obfcure; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and 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. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e.er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 312 pages
...obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and 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. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
 | 1764 - 236 pages
...the departed poor, and again cloathes a juft reflection in the moft poetic language. The The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, . , And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th'inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave; Thefe lines are... | |
 | 1765 - 414 pages
...obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmiie» The fhort and 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. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 pages
...; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The-fliort and fimpl-e annals of the poor. 'The boaft of. heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, aiika th' inevitable hour i The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you,- ye... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1770 - 402 pages
...Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The lhort and funplc annals of the poor. The The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave; Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...obfcure i Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful (mile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The tjoaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths pf glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,... | |
 | 1773 - 394 pages
...obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and 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. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor Nor you,... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1774 - 260 pages
...obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and 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. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,... | |
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. 
