| William Russell - 1841 - 690 páginas
...these two celebrated statesmen and eminent orators, a monument more durable than marble or bronze : — With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they...soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostiing by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled gods, their mighty war, Shook realms and nations... | |
| Readings - 1843 - 466 páginas
...peace he spurned, The sullied olive-branch returned, Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colours to the mast! Heaven, to reward his firmness, gave A portion in this honoured grave; And ne'er held marble in its trust, Of two such wondrous men the dust. CORONACH 5 .... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 páginas
...peace he spurned, The sullied olive-hranch returned, Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colours to the mast. Heaven, to reward his firmness, gave, A portion in this honoured grave; And iu'Yr held marhle in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than... | |
| 1909 - 844 páginas
...mighty pair of whom Scott could say, in words that a hundred years have not convicted of extravagance. With more than mortal powers endow'd How high they...soar'd above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race Jostling by dark intrigue for place; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...Pitt and Fox alone. And vainly pierce the solemn gloom, That shrouds, O Pitt, thy hallowed tomb : For ne'er held marble in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endowed, How high they soared above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 páginas
...barter'd by a timorous slave, Even then dishonour's peace he spurn'd, The sullied olive-branch return'd, Stood for his country's glory fast, And nail'd her...soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations... | |
| United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - 1852 - 140 páginas
...said of Fox and Pitt, Clay and Calhoun died with " their harness upon them." Like Fox and Pitt — " With more than mortal powers endow'd How high they...soar'd above the crowd; Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place — Like fabled gods their mighty war Shook realms and nations... | |
| United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - 1852 - 150 páginas
...said of Fox and Pitt, Clay and Calhoun died with "their harness upon them." Like Fox and Pitt— " With more than mortal powers endow'd How high they...soar'd above the crowd ; Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place — Like fabled gods their mighty war Shook realms and nations... | |
| United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - 1852 - 150 páginas
...said of Fox and Pitt, Clay and Calhoun died with "their harness upon them." Like Fox and Pitt— " With more than mortal powers endow'd How high they soar'd above the crowd; Theirs was no common pnrty race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place— Like fabled gods their mighty war Shook realms and... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...spurned. The sullied olive-branch returned, Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast. Heaven, to reward his firmness, gave, A portion in this honored grave ; And ne'er held marble in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust With more than... | |
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