Verbal Ability - Selecting Words - Discussion

Still it sounds.. u know what..

poets will be poets.. they go out of the way all the time..

well i learned some thing new..

but if u ask a teacher he or she will strike it down..

all the same its good to learn the poets thought

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Gray, Thomas

Source: THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, line 36, The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray, ed. H. W. Starr and J. R. Hendrickson, p. 38 . Originally published in 1751.Nobody knew that [Major General James] Wolfe, reciting Grays Elegy in 1759 as he rowed up the St. Lawrence [to Quebec] the night before his death, said that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow, until in 1815, in Vol. VII of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, appeared a biography of its secretary, John Robison, LL. D., professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, who as a young man had been a midshipman in Wolfes flotilla.Carroll A. Wilson, Familiar Small College Quotations, II: Mark Hopkins and the Log, The Colophon, spring 1938, p. 204. This quote is about glory. Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

Yes even I am not satisfied with the answer.

@ Chhavi & Janani : Please explain.

Agree with prashanth...but website already mentioned that punctuation will be ignored..

I agree with Janani, there is no confusion n "but" is actully correct answer.

Hey ans is exactly 'but', don't get any confusion.

i think it should be directly

Yes even i go with Saiviswanath ,the answer should either be straight or directly

Yes even I go with Devyansh, the answer should either be straight or directly.

but from this below poem written by Thomas Gray poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".

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.

THE ANSWER IS BUT.