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
| New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 282 pages
...times by which nations are to be moved. " With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,...intrigue for place: Like fabled gods, their mighty war y Shook realms and nations in its jar!" Before 1 became a member of the Senate, of which I found Mr.... | |
| United States. Congress (32nd, 2nd session : 1852-1853) - 1853 - 102 pages
...mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jsstling by dark intrigue for place : Like fabled gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar I" Before I became a member of the Senate, of which I found Mr. WEBSTER a distinguished ornament, I... | |
| New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 748 pages
...With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high the; joar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no oouimon party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place : Like fabled gods, their mighty war Shook realms nnd nations in it? jar !" Before I became a member of the Senate, of which I found Mr. WEBSTER a distinguished... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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 - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...trust Of two such wondrous men the dust.1 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 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,...Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and natious in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through... | |
| Epes Sargent - Statesmen - 1855 - 452 pages
...they soared above the crowd; Theirs was no common party race, Jo-stlin^ by dark intrigue lor placeLike 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. * * * * ' Here let their discord with them die. Speuk not for those... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...they soar'd above the erowd ! Theirs was no eommon party raee, Jostling by dark intrigue for pliee ; Like fabled gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar; Beneath eaeh banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were... | |
| Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endow 'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd 1 Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark...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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...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,...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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