 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.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endow'd, 1 low high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; I. ike fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 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... | |
 | John Blaikie - Scotland - 1868 - 336 pages
...most powerful intellects, gifted with eloquence scarcely inferior, were proud to follow their lead. Like fabled gods, their mighty war Shook realms and...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. Never did the House of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 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... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...from Lat. juxta, Joust would therefore originally mean to bring together; and jostle to push together. Like fabled gods, their mighty war Shook realms and...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 Shelton Mackenzie - Authors, Scottish - 1871 - 520 pages
...tribute to Pitt and Fox, the rival chiefs of party, who had both died in 1806. It concludes thus : — " Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place : Like fabled gods, their mijjhty war Shook realms and nations in its jar: Beneath its banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mightv war Shook realms and nations m its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox aion«. Spells of such force no... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 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 - 1874 - 336 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, 1 [MS. — " And party passion doff'd aside."] Till through the British world were known The names... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 pages
...wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endowed, • How high they soared above the crowd I 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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