 | John Bell - 1791 - Страниц: 546
...sons of men, Thai now receive the miserable breath, Which the next moment they resign again t Ah me I what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure, and our purpled state ? They cannot ward th' inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of Fate : — Virtue... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - Страниц: 446
...Forgive, ye proud, th' involuntary fault, If memory to these no trophies raise," Ms. M. and W. NOTES. " Ah me! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden...inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." Dodsley's Misc. ii. 279. Ver. 36. The paths of glory lead but to the grave] In the new Biographia Britannica,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - Страниц: 346
...as under obligation, in this stanza, to his friend West's Monody on the Death of Queen Caroline : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden...treasure, and our purple state ; They cannot ward th' inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." Awake alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 668
...Ab me '. what boots us all our boasted poner, Our gulden treasure, and our purple state ? ТЪет cannot ward the inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate ! ' * Perhaps some of your readers may rot be aware tbe following line from the poems of Cardinal Mu-.vjTf-fi... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1851 - Страниц: 478
...Burnet, p. 276. There is a quatrain in this ode which resembles almost verbatim, one in Gray's Elegy : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden...inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." It would seem that West possessed the property of these lines as right owner; for Walpole says, p.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - Страниц: 378
...stanza is, however, chiefly indebted to some verses in his friend West's Monody on Queen Caroline : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden...inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." Dodsley. Misc. ii. 279. V. 36. In Kippis. Biographia Britannica, vol. iv. p. 429, in the Life of Crashaw,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - Страниц: 380
...chiefly indebted to some verses in his friend West's Monody on Queen Caroline : " Ah me ! what hoots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure, and...inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." Dodsley. Misc. ii. 279. V. 36. In Kippis. Biographia Britannica, vol. iv. p. 429, in the Life of Crashaw,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - Страниц: 384
...stanza is, however, chiefly indebted to some verses in his friend West's Monody on Queen Caroline : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden...inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." Dodsley. Misc. ii. 279. V. 36. In Kippis. Biographia Britannica, vol. iv. p. 429, in the Life of Crashaw,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - Страниц: 362
...is, however, chiefly indebted to some verses in his friend West's Monody on Queen Caroline: " Ah mo ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure,...inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate." Dodsley. Misc. ii. 279. V. 36. In Kippis. Biographia Britannica, vol. iv. p. 429, in the Life of Crashaw,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1859 - Страниц: 368
...stanza is, however, chiefly indebted to some verses in his friend West's Monody on Queen Caroline : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure, and OUT purple state; They cannot ward the innntable hour, Nor stay the fearful violenee of fate." Dodsley.... | |
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Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure, and our purple state ; They cannot ward the inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate. 
