 | 1872 - 860 pàgines
...think, that the Profession in this country has yet produced." " One of the grand old men." "One of The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." His life was " altogether unique, one to which there is no parallel in the professional annals of this... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1872 - 522 pàgines
...ministered to the culture, instruction, and delight of so many puissant and brilliant personages — " Dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns " ? A third reason for maintaining the preeminence of Vesuvius resides in his excelling symmetry and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pàgines
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns 1 LORD BYKCOT. GEORGE GORDON BYRON, the descendant and head of an ancient and noble family, was born... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pàgines
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. LORD BYRON. THE COLISEUM. FROM "CHILDE HAROLD." • ARCHES on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pàgines
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. LORD BYRON. THE COLISEUM. FROM "CHILDE HAROLD." ARCHES on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1878 - 304 pàgines
...till the place Became religion and the heart ran o'er \Vith silent worship of the great of old : — The dead but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." It is impossible to finish ancient Rome, this citj of the Caesars, in one letter ; another must take... | |
 | Plea - 1878 - 350 pàgines
...practical operation. Every succeeding year seems to steal away some portion of the dominion of " Those dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule • Our spirits from their urns." But amid the great outlay of intellectual effort consequent on these extensive changes, we may observe... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pàgines
...contact with the thought, — the best thought of the generation, the thought of " The great of old, The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." I refer to it here chiefly to show that it increases the power of selfknowledge. We read our own thoughts... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pàgines
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old, — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Xaafnd. The Clime of the Eatt. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 570 pàgines
...for strength in the warfare of life at the well-worn pilgrim shrines of " ' the great of old, Those dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.' " I prefer to steer my frail and tossing bark by the beacons and landmarks of those ' immortal names... | |
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twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still... 
