...Grand, Bartol, Miller, Alvey, and McSherry, Bland and Johnson are outstanding representatives, and are : The dead, but sceptered sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. At all times, the courts have sought to declare "The law which is perfection of reason. ' ' They have...

...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." From the Coliseum we turn to the Circus ruins, of which there are several, still showing that performances...

...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 rule Our spirits from their urns.13 Für Byron sind die Ruinen eloquenter als alle Texte, die aus der Antike überliefert sind....

...are vividly before us, and our hearts are tilled with silent worship of the great and good of old, "the dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns." The elements of their mighty strength fill, animate and thrill us with a divine love of truth and goodness...

...102 The roots of ourrribdern 'civilization go back to the language and literature and philosophy of the "dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urn." It is impossible to dissociate ourselves from the civilizations of the distant past. And in this...