 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.  The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Pagina 5091844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1864 - 814 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pagina’s
...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...judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character maj be calmly revised by history. And history, while, for the warning of vehement, high, and daring... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1855 - 196 pagina’s
...space. High over their venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham; and, from above, his effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with...which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The rash and indiscriminate judgments of his contemporaries may now be revised by history. And history,... | |
 | 1855 - 824 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pagina’s
...graves towers the stately monument of Chatham,6 and from above,6 his effigy, graven by a cunning 7 hand, seems still, with eagle face and outstretched...bid England be of good cheer, and to hurl defiance 8 at her foes. The generation which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time has come... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pagina’s
...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 eagle face and outstretched »rm, to bid England be of food cheer, •nd to hurl .defiance at her foes. The generation which reared... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 838 pagina’s
...Wilberforce. In no other cemetery do so many great citizens lie within so narrow a space. High over these venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham,...outstretched arm to bid England be of good cheer and hurl defiance to her foes. The generation which reared that memorial of him has disappeared. The time... | |
 | 1864 - 820 pagina’s
...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... | |
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