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 trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note... The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 113by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...ye proud, impute to these the fault, ! If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 11. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's... | |
| Thomas Allen - Drawing - 1832 - 356 pages
...appropriated, points it out to every feeling mind as one of those hallowed spots, " Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault«, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." Respecting the style of architecture Mr. Foster has adopted, the celebrated Dr. Milner has... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 634 pages
...when the glory of God is sung in strains in which the choirs of heaven might join, — ' Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.' This, and much more than this, is truly lamentable ; especially in an hour, like the present,... | |
| Peter Mackenzie - 1833 - 350 pages
...impute to these the fault, If mem'ry 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 or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? — Can honour's voice... | |
| Peter Mackenzie - Scotland - 1833 - 252 pages
...impute to these the fault, If mem'ry 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 or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? — Can honour's voice... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...o'er their tomb no trophies5 raise', Where', through the long-drawn aisle' and fretted rault', The pealing anthem swells the note of praise'. Can storied...fleeting breath'? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dusf, Or flattery soothe the dull', cold ear of death'? Perhaps' . . in this neglected spot' . . is... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...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 vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praisa. 11. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath 1 Can Honor's... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...wealth, e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour:— The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Where, thro' the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Nor you, ye Proud ! impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise,... | |
| Arts - 1837 - 520 pages
...reverently tread the pavement of some ancient structure devoted to religious uses — " Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." The venerable cloisters, with their sculptured mementoes of the transitive nature of our sojourn... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1832 - 612 pages
...when the glory of God is sung in strains in which the choirs of heaven might join, — ' Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.' This, and much more than this, is truly lamentable ; especially in an hour, like the present,... | |
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