...Commander-in-Chief reciting Gray's Elegy. On finishing the lines: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Wolfe paused, as if expecting some appreciation of his efforts. None came; the silence...

...Some remarks on the following stanza of Gray, — ' The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave,' — seemed to me so contrary to the received opinion, that I looked into the matter....

...return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (GRAY, Elegy written in a Country Churchyard) ATI interval between two wars, 1748-1756....

...knees the envied kiss to share. • « • - - . The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (GRAY, Elegy written in a Country Churchyard) An interval between two wars, 1748-1756....

...Country Churchyard" about "the boast of heraldry" ("The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, / And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, / Awaits alike the inevitable hour. / The paths of glory lead but to the grave") claims that "true heraldry does not boast — it aspires. For some, indeed, it possesses...