 | William Stevenson - 1882 - 354 pages
...the same year, 1806, recalling the words of Sir Walter Scott : "The mighty chiefs lie 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." In the choir are the Tombs... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...touching lines : — " 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 reqaiem sound, And Fox'a shall the notes rebound. " The solemn echo seems... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 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 solemn echo seems to... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 pages
...beneath the stone, Where — taming thought to human pride 1 — The mighty chiefs sleep eido 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 182 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 solemn echo seems... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 184 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 solemn echo seems... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 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 solemn echo seems to... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1883 - 488 pages
...Anarchy in chains. The proximity of the tombs of Fox and Pitt suggested Scott's wellknown lines : — 'Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier'. On the S. side of the door is the monument of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (d. 1732), by Cheere. R. James... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...where his remains rest in close proximity to the tomb of Pitt. " 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 296 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 solemn echo seems... | |
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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... 
