 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.  The New England Magazine - 第595页1906全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1926 - 732 页
...figure. His recital of the lines from Gray's Elegy — 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. — is known to every school boy, and the classic battle on the Plains of Abraham,... | |
 | 1925 - 888 页
...Elegy ; how absolutely Horatian is such a stanza as : The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. We are in danger of finding nothing at all in Horace ; and this is all the more curious... | |
 | 1960 - 262 页
...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, Awaits 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 trophies... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - 1977 - 328 页
...failures, there sat Thomas Gray observing that : The beast 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. No one could doubt that the author of "On Denoting" fully appreciated the delights... | |
 | 1996 - 160 页
...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, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;... | |
 | Lowell O. Erdahl - 164 页
...realism of Thomas Gray's elegy speaks of and to us all: 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.6 When life and death confront us with our weakness and finitude, we may begin to... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer - 1996 - 396 页
..."Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": The boast of heraldry [lineage], 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. Before considering the embodiment of Romanticism in works of art, some qualifications... | |
 | Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, Tremper Longman III - 2010 - 1086 页
...As the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray wrote, "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave" (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, stanza 9). In the ancient Near Eastern world... | |
 | Bhikkhu Visuddhacara - 2007 - 116 页
...pervasive presence of death dogging our every step. 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. THOMAS GRAY Yes, isn't it true that, in the heat of the moment, we forget that we... | |
 | John Lello - 2001 - 170 页
...pictured signs and emblems on a shield, helmet or banner. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Thomas Gray (1716-71) 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard') The College of Arms... | |
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