 Awaits alike th' 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...  First collection of instructive extracts - Page 200by Scottish school-book assoc - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...you, ye Proud ! impute to these the fault, If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing...breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...inevitable hour I—- The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fanlt ng o Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregimut with celestial flre ; Hands that the... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1830 - 464 pages
...no other master than the Almighty, it was far more impressive than in the full-choired cathedral, " Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the voice of praise." For several days we saw nothing but the heavens and the sea. The evenings were lovely,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...gave, Await, alike, th' inevitable hour ; — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 10. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, ! If memory o'er...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 634 pages
...extinguished 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,... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 pages
...the most elaborate trophies which human ingenuity has been able to erect in loftier temples : — " Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." ',м Kv,:y . s CUMRERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 27 The illustrative view, taken from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 608 pages
...extinguished 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,... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1832 - 356 pages
...to which it is 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...Await, alike, th' inevitable hour ; — The paths of glory leafl but to 'the 'grave. 10. Nor you, y« proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their...tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn .nisle, and fretted vault, Tile pealing anthem sw.-lis the note of praise. 11. Can storied urn, or... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...e'er gave, Await alike th' 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 thro' the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied... | |
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