 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
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 pages
...shrouds, O Pitt, thy hallowed tomb ! For ne'er held marble in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. 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, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers cnduw'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Thrirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; I'., infill r;ich banner proud to stand, I ..iiik'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...than mortal powers endowed, How high they soared above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party mc«, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...marble in its 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
...portion in this honour'd grave, And ne'er held marble in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they...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... | |
 | John Blaikie - 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 nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner, proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land ; Till through the British... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 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,...their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land; Till through the British world... | |
 | 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 nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner, proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land ; Till through the British... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 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.) - 1873 - 264 pages
...portion in this honour'd grave ; And ne'er held marble in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they...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... | |
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