 Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound.. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the...  Highways and Byways in London - Page 192by Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Cross - 1859 - 536 pages
...mouldered into dust, and tongues that entranced the listening thousands are silenced till the resurrection. "Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to...requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound." Joseph Addison lies sepulchred in immortality where once he loved to walk for the " agreeable melancholy"... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1859 - 440 pages
...history, as well as on the monument, the lines of Sir Walter Scott on two very different heroes: " The solemn echo seems to cry, Here let their discord with them die ; But, search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again ?" And if their rivalry,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pages
...and talent gone, For ever tombed beneath the stone, Where, — taming thought to human pride I—- The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's...to cry, — "Here let their discord with them die; " Speak not for those a separate doom, " Whom Fate made brothers in the tomb, "But search the land... | |
 | 1889 - 860 pages
...pointed the same lesson. Speaking of the close vicinity of the coffins of Pitt and Fox, he says : — The solemn echo seems to cry, Here let their discord with them die ; Here where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings ; Here where the fretted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 336 pages
...life is on the lees. Genius, and taste, and talent gone, For ever tomb'd beneath the stone, Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. 185 Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1889 - 480 pages
...here of the graves of Fox and the younger Pitt (p. 199) that suggested Scott's well-known lines : — 'Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier'. W. AISLE OF N. TRANSEPT. R. George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen , the statesman (d. 1860); bust by Noble.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 pages
...life is on the lees. Genius, and taste, and talent gone, For ever tomb'd beneath the stone, Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs...to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 pages
...wondrous men the dust : Genius and taste and talent gone, For ever tombed beneath the stone, Where — taming thought to human pride— The mighty chiefs...requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound." Sir ROBERT PEEL, Bart. (1788-1850), was the son of the first baronet, an eminent manufacturer. He was... | |
 | John A. Gutteridge - 1890 - 256 pages
...and talent gone, Forever torab'd beneath the stone, Where — taming thought to human pride ! — 69 Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier; O'er Pitts' the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry,... | |
 | 1890 - 114 pages
...the stone, Where — taming thought to human pride — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. » * » The solemn echo seems to cry Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom Whom Fate made brothers in the tomb. ADDRESS OF MR. HAWLEY, OF... | |
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