WORDSWORTH QUOTES GRAY’S ‘ELERGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD’

 

“THE PATHS OF GLORY LEAD BUT TO THE GRAVE”

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM.   (1770-1850)  English Romantic poet.  Choice Autograph Quotation Signed, “W. Wordsworth.” One page, oblong octavo. “Rydal Mount” “Sept [em]ber 30^th [18]36.”  Wordsworth writes: “The paths of glory lead but to the grave. W. Wordsworth.”     The above quotation was taken from Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.”  Extremely fine condition.

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