 | Beatrice Home - 1925 - 234 pages
...write, "High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham, and from above his effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with...of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes." In goodly company the statesmen cluster round the stately bronze-like columns, their white marble thrown... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1925 - 148 pages
...over those venerable graves," he wrote, " towers the stately monument of Chatham, and from above, his effigy graven by a cunning hand, seems still with...of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes." Singularly fortunate have been the great Quiet Hours in 'Poets' Corner family of Pitt in their monuments... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1866 - 742 pages
...towers the stately monument of Chatham, and from above, his effigy, graven by u cunning hand, seems, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England be of good cheer and hurl defiance at her foes ;" that eagle face " which seemed to \ViIuerforce, as he bore the banner... | |
 | 1918 - 668 pages
...representative among these great witnesses. In this transept, to quote Macaulay's stirring words, " Chatham seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England be of good cheer." Over the western door his yet more illustrious son seems once again to " pour forth the lofty language... | |
 | 1844 - 584 pages
...within so narrow a space. High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of ('hatham, and from above, his own effigy, graven by a cunning...by history. And history, while for the warning of Tenement, high, and daring natures, she notes his many errors, will yet deliberately pronounce, that,... | |
 | 260 pages
...space. High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham, and from above, his effigy, graven by a cunning hand seems still, with...defiance at her foes. The generation which reared 10 that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate judgments... | |
 | 384 pages
...and looked on his expressive effigy, which, in the eloquent language of a great English historian, "seems still, with eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England be of good cheer and to hurl def1ance at her foes." 37 CHAPTER II. BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH RULE. 1760—1774. SECTION 1. — From... | |
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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 be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes. 
