 | History - 1857 - 650 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.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...excelled ; Chiefs graced with scars, and prodigal of blood, Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men by whom impartial laws were given,...where the mighty rest, Since their foundation came a noble guest; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. In... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Austria - 1858 - 648 pages
...excell'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 Ьеатеп." Although upwards of 90 were admitted, Luther was excluded until April, 1848, when his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...exceli'd ; Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given;...nobler guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss coiiTey'd A fairer spirit or more welcome shade. In what new region to the just assigned, What new... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...excelled; Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given...welcome shade. In what new region, to the just assigned, What new employments please the embodied mind? A winged Virtue, through the ethereal sky, From world... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...excell'd ; Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood j Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given...rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest j Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd A fairer spirit or more welcome shade. In what new region... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...buried in Westminster Abbey, two of the Eoyal Dukes being pall-bearers. It might truly be said — " Ne'er to these chambers where the mighty rest, Since...guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A purer spirit, or more holy shade." Grattan's second son, and his biographer, succeeded him in the representation... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
...arts excelled; Chiefs graced with scys 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." THE Abbey stands near the Thames, on what was once an island in the west end of London. Its proportions,... | |
 | International Exhibition - 1862 - 460 pages
...to be marked by a white marble slab, which bears the lines written by Addison's friend Tickell — "Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since...bliss conveyed, A fairer spirit or more welcome shade : Oh, gone for ever 1 take this long adieu, And sleep in peace, next thy loved Mountague." Close by... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...excelled ; Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given...; Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, L Since their foundation, came a nobler guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer... | |
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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. 
