 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,...  The Living Age - Page 1631909Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...brothers in the iomb, But seareh the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?" Seott. With more than mortal powers endow'd How high they soar'd above the erowd ! Theirs was no eommon party raee, Jostling by dark intrigue for pliee ; Like fabled gods, their... | |
 | 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...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1857 - 704 pages
...harness upon them.' Like Fox and Pitt — ' With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soared above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race,...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar. Beneath each banner proud to stand Look'd up the noblest of the land. ***** Here let their discord... | |
 | 1857 - 538 pages
...harness upon them." Like Fox and Pitt— "With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar above the crowd ; Theirs was no common party race,...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar. Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land. * * • * Here let their discord... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...such an encomium as he himself pronounces over the grave of his villain hero, Marmion." — JEFFREY.] With more 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 Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...such an encomium as he himself pronounces over the grave of his villain hero, Marmion."— JEFFREY.] With more 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 Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations... | |
 | Henry Clay - 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 war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1859 - 662 pages
...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...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar. Beneath c'ach banner, proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land. ****** Here let thtir discord... | |
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