 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
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 pages
...than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race',1 Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled...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 - Poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,1 Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled...proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known Spells of such force no wizard grave E'er framed in dark... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 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,...intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war 170 Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1857 - 706 pages
...harness upon them.' Like Fox and Pitt — 'With more thnn mortal powers endow'd, How high they soared above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for plnce — Like fabled gods their mighty \vnr Shook realms and nations in its jar. Beneath each banner... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd I Theirs was no common party race,* Jostling by ditrk intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty...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 fore« no... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...above the crowd ! (1) This extract is taken from the introduction to the first canto of " Marmion." Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark...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... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Death notices - 1859 - 662 pages
...times by which nations are to be moved. * " With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soarM above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar !" Before I became a member of the Senate, of which I found Mr. Webster a distinguished ornament, I... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 pages
...harness upon them.' Like Fox and Pitt— " ' With more than mortal powers cndow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race,...place. Like fabled gods their mighty war Shook realms aud nations in its jar. Beneath each banner, proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land. ******... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1860 - 448 pages
...harness upon them Like 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. * * * * ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1860 - 656 pages
...dust* CANTO I, MARMION. With more than mortal powers endowed, How high they soared above the crowd 1 Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark...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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