 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...spot where slept the ashes of kindred greatness, might truly be said, — „ _, • Ne'er to those Chambers where the mighty rest, Since their foundation...nobler guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd A purer spirit, or more welcome shade.' " The year 1820 was signalised by the momentary success... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...excel! d; Chiefs graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given,...And Saints, who taught, and led the way to Heaven. It is not our present purpose to give any general description* of this edifice, but to confine ourselves... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...slept the ashes of kindred greatness, might truly be said, — , < Ne'er to those Chambers Where tbe mighty rest, Since their foundation came a nobler guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd A purer spirit, or more welcome shade.' " The year 1820 was signalised by the momentary success... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - Ireland - 1834 - 312 pages
...resembled Mr. Grattan in this, that to a beautiful imagination he united a spotless purity of life:— " Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest; Nor ever to the bowers of bliss conveye4 A purer spirit or a holier shade." He died on the 14th May, 1820,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...mortal to put on immortality. Of them, of each of them, every American may exclaim, " Ne'er to the chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation,...conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." We may not mourn over the departure of such men. We should rather hail it as a kind dispensation of... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...mortal to put on immortality. Of them, of each of them, every American may exclaim — " Ne'er to the chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation,...conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." We may not mourn over the departure of such men. We should rather hail it as a kind dispensation of... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 550 pages
...mortal to put on immortality. Of them, of each of them, every American may exclaim — " Ne'er to the chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation,...conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." We may not mourn over the departure of such men. We should rather hail it as a kind dispensation of... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pages
...mortal to put on immortality. Of them, of each of them, every American may exclaim ; " Ne'er to the chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation,...nobler guest, Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey 'd A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." We may not mourn over the departure of such men.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 258 pages
...Grattan in nothing but this, — that to a beautiful imagination he united a spotless purity of life : ' Ne'er to these chambers where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest ; Nor ever to the bowers of bliss conveyed A purer spirit or a holier shade.' ... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...kingdom ; it is also embellished with numerous marble monuments to the memory of departed worth, to " Men by whom impartial laws were given, And saints who taught and led the way to heaven." The Odd Fellows' Hall stands on the rising part of Highgate, on the very identical spot where the Nelson... | |
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Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven. 
