 | Frederick Bertrand Robinson - 1915 - 482 pàgines
...to some old hero. You want your sons to gaze upon the nearest approach to the features of those ' ' dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns." But what is a statue of Cicero compared to standing where your voice echoes from pillar and wall that... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 460 pàgines
...tokens remind us that we are still beneath the influence of the old masters of a vanished world, — • "The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." And here, again, we see a bond of sympathy between Tennyson and Milton: they are among the most learned,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1920 - 344 pàgines
...tokens remind us that we are still beneath the influence of the old masters of a vanished world, — " The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." And here, again, we see a bond of sympathy between Tennyson and Milton: they are among the most learned,... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 pàgines
...preceding all organizations of society, which we have received from those " sturdy old iconoclasts," " The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." IV In following this stream of blessing still farther back through the centuries, we might well pause... | |
 | Melville Elijah Stone - 1921 - 416 pàgines
...located in that city, and there he and I spent some happy hours and days poring over the works of ". . . the dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns." Davitt, too, came to the United States. He, like Dillon, could not approve of Parnell's moderate methods.... | |
 | 1924 - 764 pàgines
...history of the men who have established these principles — the knights-errant of meteorology — The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. The book is excellently produced, and is made especially attractive by numerous full page illustrations.... | |
 | John Howard Harris - 1926 - 622 pàgines
...branch he studies, nor without having learned to reverence the great men and great deeds of the past, "the dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns." But we would not have reverence for the past blind his eyes to the greater achievements and, I believe,... | |
 | Henry Crew - 1928 - 434 pàgines
...made some new discovery in natural science." CHAPTER V THE BIRTH OF MODERN PHYSICS — THE GREAT TRIO "The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." — BYRON: Manfred, iii, 4. "Modern Science," said Sir Arthur Schuster in his presidential address... | |
 | 1918 - 500 pàgines
...their capacious understandings, evolved those wondrous truths, though dead yet live today in our land, "The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." In faithfully tracing the history of the inception, growth, maturity and construction of that instrument,... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - 1927 - 730 pàgines
...Hammurapi. We go to them for the laws that must enable us to live together in unity and godly love. "The dead but sceptered sovereigns Who still rule our spirits from their urns." Since, then, the law is king in America, and we must have a government of laws and not of men, it behooves... | |
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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... 
