 High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham ; and from above, his effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England be of good cheer and to hurl defiance at her foes.  Manual of Greek and Latin prose composition - Page 148by Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1855Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 814 pages
...representative Minister, Chatham, from the pedestal where, as Macaulay says, " it seems still with eagle eye and outstretched arm to bid England be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes," and replace it in due season with the less imposing and less pretentious effigy of Lord Russell. And... | |
 | 1855 - 782 pages
...Commoner, the effigy on whose tomb seems still, as Macanlay says, " with eagle face and outstretched hand to bid England be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes." " Austrian Alliance," besides being impolitic and untimely, is bad poetry. "War" conveys a stern but... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...space. High over those venerable graves towers the statelymonument of Chatham, and from above, his own effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with...which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...space. High over those venerable graves towers the statelymonument of Chatham, and from above, his own effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with...which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character... | |
 | 1844 - 616 pages
...Wilberforce. In no other cemetery do so many great citizens lie within so narrow a space. High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham, and from above, his own effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England... | |
 | 1844 - 642 pages
...Wilberforce. In no other Cemetery do so many great citizens lie within so narrow a space. High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham, and from above, his own effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 pages
...Wilberforce. In no other cemetery do so many great citizens lie within so narrow a space. High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham,...which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 464 pages
...the stately 448 MACAULAY'•S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. monument of Chatham, and from above, his own effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with...which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...Wilberforce. In no other cemetery do so many great citizens lie within so narrow a space. High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham,...seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to hid England be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes. The generation which reared that memorial... | |
 | 1855 - 824 pages
...Commoner, the effigy on whose tomb seems still, as Maeaulay says, " with eagle face and outstretehed hand to bid England be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes." " Austrian Alliance," besides being impolitic and untimely, is bad poetry. " War " conveys a stem but... | |
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