 | 1857 - 592 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 rule Our spirits from their urns." The position of this ancient abbey was well described by its name, Bdliis locus, " the fair place."... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pagina’s
...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 rule Our spirits from their urns." The position of this ancient abbey was well described by its name, Bellus locus, " the fair place."... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pagina’s
...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 urus. — 'Twas such a night ! "Tis strange that I recal it at this time ; I'm I have found our thoughts... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - 300 pagina’s
...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. SIR WALTER D'ESPEO (also founder of Warden Abbey, Bucks, and a captain in the Battle of the Standard),... | |
 | Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton - 1860 - 176 pagina’s
...to silence as frivolous or envious, and the "Old Corrector" seemed destined to become one of those " dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." in Shakspere's time ; while others, again, contented themselves with urging the improbability of the... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pagina’s
...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 rule Our spirits from their urns. BYKOX. of ISunmn §|dngs. LIKE leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering... | |
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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... 
