 | John Kitto - 1857 - 516 halaman
...are an essential element of our social economy. The best minds of every age are trained by " Those dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." From books they receive most of their culture ; and by them are disciplined in youth, stimulated in... | |
 | John Peyre Thomas - 1857 - 432 halaman
...altogether lost to us ; lie belongs to those regal intellects whose dominion never ceases — Those dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. His writings will rank him among great philosophers, as his admirable career has placed him among the... | |
 | 1857 - 564 halaman
...more extensive dominion than that which they possessed over their own contemporaries. Among these — "Dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." None deserve a loftier niche in the temple of fame, and few have had greater influence upon succeeding... | |
 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 360 halaman
...twilight hours, among them; " And the heart ran over, With silent worship of the great of old, The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Our first visit was to the Roman Forum, which certainly possesses more thrilling interest than any... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - 384 halaman
...the groves of golden Italy, and, in quaint dialogue, or fine pantomime, conversing with the past. The "dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns," appear at his spell, and range themselves around him. Pericles, the Jupiter of Athens, stands with... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 halaman
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns ! BYBON.— Adap. THE VOICE OF SPRING. I come, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 halaman
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns ! SHELLEY. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley, was bornA.n. 1792. From the family... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 halaman
...of the heart, and therefore they will speak to all ages: they have, in fact, placed him among Those dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. We aro sorry always to observe in tlie records of Byron's life any traces of that portion of liis career... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 198 halaman
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old, The dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." The position of this ancient abbey was well described by its name, Bdliis locus, " the fair place." Before... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 halaman
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old, The dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." The position of this ancient abbey was well described by its name, Bellus locus, " the fair place." Before... | |
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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 sceptred sovereigns, who still... 
