 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...homely joys, and destiny obseure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple ;nmaK te ; As if it sigh'd with eaeh man's eare For being so remote ; Think how the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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...but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 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...to the grave ! Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tombs no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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...Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead—but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 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...to the grave. Nor you, ye proud ! impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 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...but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud! impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, thro' the long-drawn aisle, and fretted... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short aud simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry,...to the grave. Nor you, ye proud ! impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fietted... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 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...o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 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...but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o' er their tomb no trophies raise , Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, Thr short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour j — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory... | |
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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. 
