The inheritors of unfulfilled renown Rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought, Far in the unapparent.

The glory which he assured them they would thus win was not the éclat of victory, or even of national deliverance, but the imperishable renown which comes from righteousness.

The commander of this force was one Colonel Morton, who had achieved considerable renown in the war for independence, and had still more recently displayed desperate bravery in two desperate duels, in both of which he had cut his antagonist nearly to pieces with the bowie-knife.

But what, should I light a candle to the bright sunshine of my glorious renown?

They were a truculent and obstinate people, and gloried in the warlike renown of their forefathers, the men who had followed Cromwell, and who had shared in the defence of Derry and in the victories of the Boyne and Aughrim.

This curiosity would have been legitimate and natural enough in view of the universal renown of the French inventor.

The plan of Buonaparte's attack was worthy of his martial renown: it was unsuccessful; but let this be ascribed to the true causethe heroic and enduring courage of the troops, and the man to whom he was opposed.

He will bring thy judgment unto victory, immortalize thy good deeds, and crown thy career with everlasting renown.

In the mean time, when I consider for how many years he stood before the world as an author, with still increasing fame,half a century in this most changeful of centuries,I cannot hesitate to predict for him a deathless renown.

His great scientific reputation, the diplomatic renown he had won in England, his able and prudent devotion to the cause of his country, had paved the way for the new negotiator's popularity in France: it was immense.

Wherefore, having now achieved a not dishonorable renown in the world of chivalry, I am come to beseech her kindness and to redeem my ring which she hath upon her finger and to give her back her ring again.

" At the moment when the signature was being put to the treaty of the triple alliance, the sovereign of most distinction in Europe, owing to the eccentric renown belonging to his personal merit, the czar Peter the Great, had just made flattering advances to France.

When I set out upon a career of reform, I was impelled to do so by motives in part like those which seem to have possessed Don Quixote when he set forth, as Cervantes says, with the intention "of righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger, from which in the issue he would obtain eternal renown and fame."

"He who stands there on a low hill All dressed in a small mantle, Holding in his hand a small stick And calling to sorrow, 'Come and find me,' Know him for a son of Medea." "Miliana; Error and evil renown, Of water and of wood, People are jealous of it, Women are Viziers there, And men the captives.

That will account for this restless delver's extraordinary talismanic renown.

Thy feet have found the path that Shakespeare found, Life's lonely exit of such far renown; For thee, 0 dear interpreter of dreams, The curtain hath rung down.

Always behind the flaming renown of some great soldier, statesman, or poet, there is a woman's hand, or the hands, maybe, of many women, pouring, unseen, the nutritive oil of praise.

There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.

Brandebourg answered that their ladies would not have them lose their lives in so miserable an affair as single combat, whereby one gained the name of fool rather than honorable renown.

The old League of High Germany, which earned immortal renown at Morgarten and Sempach, consisted of German-speaking cantons only.

Receiving, as we saw, the learning and traditions of Rome while Rome was yet mighty and a name of old imperial renown, Ireland kept and cherished the classical wisdom and learning, not less than the lore of Palestine.

Hence the infamous renown of political decisions in legal controversies, such as bills of attainder and ex post facto laws, or special legislation to satisfy claims which could not be defended before legitimate courts, or the scandals always attending the trial of election petitions.

So far as the war was concerned, he never had an idea beyond a little cheap renown as a paper colonel of volunteers; so far as the treaty was concerned, he made the unpardonable blunder of playing into the hands of his opponents, and leaving the sound and conservative sentiment of the country without adequate leadership in Washington.

He lived for the magnanimous renown of Florenceshe for the selfish prominence of her family.

They had just maintained gloriously, at Dogger Bank, their old maritime renown.