 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...thou wert a lad, Then Pitt was all ; or, if not all, so much, HU very rival almost dcem'd him such. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 pages
...beneath the stone ; Where, — taming thought to human pride, — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pitt's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound.* THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...illustrious statesmen, when death had called them to another sphere, Sir Walter Scott thus speaks: — i Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, '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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...nations in its jar ; Now — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side.1 Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, '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... | |
 | James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...contention is no more heard : — Taming thought to human pride, The mighty chiefs sleep side by side ; Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pitt the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound : The solemn echoes seem... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 pages
...distance from one another, lie the remains of Chatham, Castlereagh, Wilberforce, Grattan, Pitt, and Fox. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pitt's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. Jlfarmion, Intro, to Canto... | |
 | Edward Mogg - 1848 - 304 pages
...the best : — " Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, '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... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1848 - 190 pages
...fifty-ninth year. He reposes in Westminster Abbey, side by side with his great rival Mr. Pitt :— " Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier." " In private life, the character of Pitt was the more pure ; that of Fox the more amiable. The eloquence... | |
 | 1850 - 458 pages
...England's rival statesmen will one day mingle ; for they sleep so nearly side by side, that should you " Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pitt the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound." There too sleeps Wilberforce... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...covering the graves of the rival statesmen, Pitt and Fox. " The mighty chiefs sleep side by side ; Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier."— Sir Walter Scott. Grattan, Canning, and Castlereagh ; and the following monuments — to the Duke and... | |
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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 tomb... 
