...obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast 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,...

...obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast 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...

...obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast 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...

...known, this is the one.") A few lines may serve to give the tone of Gray's pensive solitude: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r And all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Full many a gem of purest ray serene...

...obscure; 30 Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the...

...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...

...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;...

..."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...

...obstacle, but in death they meet their match. As the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray wrote, "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty,...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...

...obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the...