 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 in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land,...  Monument to the Memory of Henry Clay ... - Page 3851857 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. 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, then- mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 572 pages
...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,...proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such force, no... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...powers endow'*!, How high they soar'd above the crowd! Theirs was no common p.iriy race, Jn-,!liii|; bv dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled gods", their mighty war Shook realms und nations in ¡i-, jar ; Beneath each hanner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of ihe laud. Till... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...trust Of two such wond'rous men the dust ! With more than mortal powers endow Y'. How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,...proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such force no... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,...proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone. Spells of such force no... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...the dust. With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above [he crowd ! Theirs was uo common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place;...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar; Ileneath each banner proud lo suiud, Look'd up the noblest of (he i 1:1.1. Till through the British... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...faintly from afar. BEATTIE. 17- FOX AND PITT. WITH more than mortal powers endowed, How high they soared above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,...nations in its jar : Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...Pitt and Fox, Scott has said truly — '' With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race...nations in its jar; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land ; Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - Eloquence - 1834 - 64 pages
...the truth and beauty of the poet's lines as far more applicable to Pitt and Fox than to Demosthenes "Like fabled gods, their mighty war Shook realms and...nations in its jar : Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land." For ourselvs, I regard the speech of Roger GrisWold on the Judiciary... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...trust Of two such wond'rous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endowed, How high they soared above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race,...nations in its jar; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and... | |
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