...178 tower, when the moonlight on the snow-shining mountains recalls the memory of the Coliseum — " till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! " Byron, like Burns, was a prodigy of genius ; nor were they at all dissimilar in temperament, although...

...thou didst shine, thou rolling moon ! upon All this, and cast a wide and tender light, Which soften'd ch the unhappy Doge delivers him-self at the place...people are too far off to hear him. He then saya, " !"— pp. 68, 69. In his dying hour he is beset with Demons, who pretend to claim him as their forfeit;—...

...>u didst shine, thou rolling moon ! upon All this, and cast a wide and tender light, Which softon'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and...heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old !" — pp. 68, 69. In his dying hour he is beset with Demons, who pretend to claim him as their forfeit...

...tender light, Whicli softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and fill'd up, As 't were anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their nrns.* — Manfred. ' Arches on arches ! ав It were that Borne, Collecting the chiel trophies ol...

...the hoar austerity Of rugg'd desolation, and fill'd up, As Ч were anew, the gaps of centuries, 295 eye, And the dead were at my feet. 203-^223. At the...Mariner. 224-235. The WaUiiuj-Gu.ext fcarc/h that a 300 Our spirits from their urns. — DON JUAN CANTO III (1821) The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece!...

...wide and tender light, Which soften 'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and fill'd up, 35 — 40 The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. 'Twas such a night...

...tender light, Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and fill'd up, As 't were anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Byron : Manfred, m, iv. 21. (A Song, the whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to himself) Tell me...

...cast a wide and tender light Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, As 'twere anew, the gaps of centuries Leaving...ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old. ("Manfred," Act III. Sc. iv.) There Byron has lost himself. He is neither mocking nor untrue; and he...

...that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not ; till the place Became religious, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Only he stands aright, who from his little point of present possession ever meditates on the far-reaching...

...one has expressed with such amplitude the sentiment that in a hundred sacred spots of the earth has Fill'd up As 'twere, anew, the gaps of centuries ;...making that which was not ; till the place Became religious, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead, but sceptred...