 | Edmund Burke - 1851 - 886 páginas
...only quote, as deeming them highly appropriate, those most touching lines which were applied by oue of the greatest poets of this country to the memory of a man even greater than Sir R. Peel : — " Now i- the stately column broke The beacon light is quenched... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 páginas
...kept course aright; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne. Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill! Oh! think how to his latest day, When Death, just hovering,... | |
 | 1902 - 874 páginas
...Peel's death in 1850: / I will only, Sir, quote those most touching and feeling lines which were npplied by one of the greatest poets of this country to the...The beacon light Is quenched in smoke; The trumpet's sliver voice is still; The warder silent on the hill." Introducing the Budget of 1854, as Chancellor... | |
 | Sir Edward Thomason - 1845 - 620 páginas
...course aright ; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propp'd the tottering throne. Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill ! ' " With every good wish, believe me to remain, " Sir,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 726 páginas
...been spared to render to his country the most essential services. I will only, sir, quote those most touching and feeling lines which were applied by one...Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quench'd in smoke ; The trumpet's silver voice is still j The warder silent on the hill.' Sir, I will... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1846 - 564 páginas
...friends, and implacable enemies — if his enemies should gratify their purpose against him — " ' Then is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warden silent on the hill! ! !'" (Great cheering). The motion was then put and... | |
 | 1850 - 824 páginas
...it will he none the less acceptable to the general reader at this time. — t*d. San. Lit. Mttut. " Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke. The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill." No journal, calling itself Southern, can pass unnoticed... | |
 | 1851 - 878 páginas
...essential services. (Cheers.) I will only quote, as deeming them highly appropriate, those most touching lines which were applied by one of the greatest poets of this country to the memory of a man even greater than Sir R. Peel : — " Now is the stately column broke The beacon light is quenched... | |
 | 1851 - 884 páginas
...essential services. (Cheers.) I will only quote, as deeming them highly appropriate, those most touching lines which were applied by one of the greatest poets of this country to the memory of a man even greater than Sir R. Peel : — " Now is the stately column broke The beacon light is quenched... | |
 | 1853 - 748 páginas
...kept course aright; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propp'd the tottering throne. Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still. The warder silent on the hill. Like PITT and Fox, our great rival statesmen, CLAY,... | |
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Now is the stately column broke. The beacon light is quenched in smoke ; The trumpet's silver voice is still ; The warder silent on the hill. 
