 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...  Recollections of a Busy Life - Page 357by Horace Greeley - 1868 - 624 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and fill'd up, As Ч were anew, the gaps d8b 4 — 'Twas such a night! Tis strange that I recall it at this time; But, I have found, our thoughts... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841 - 658 pages
...arches of Constantino and Titus, and the Flavian amphitheatre, the Niagara of ruins! " The heart runs o'er With silent worship of the great of old; The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who stilt rale Our spirits from their urns." This is no poetic exaggeration. I am inclined to think Byron... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and flll'd up, As 'twere anew, the gaps of centuries; Leaving that beautiful which still was...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. — 'T was such a night : 'Tis strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1842 - 442 pages
...SWING. Engraved by Henry Cook ; from a Painting by W. Andrews 325 THE MIGHTY DEAD. BY CAMILLA TOULMIN. " The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." BrBON. ERE beauteous earth had ever felt decay, When man first knew it for a resting-place, And this,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 pages
...wide and tender light, Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, \ Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Matthews observes, in his " Diary of an Invalid," " I drove at midnight to see the Coliseum by moonlight... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 424 pages
...Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, As 'twere anew, the gap of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still...heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old I The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Matthews observes,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 pages
...down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and till d up, As 'twere anew, the gaps of centories; Leaving that beautiful which still was so. And making...and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the grest of old 1 — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns."... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pages
...neighbourhood of the ColUseum at Rome ; he talks of the influence it had upon his mind, until he says— • The place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old. The dead jet scoptred sovereigns that Hill rule Our spirits from their urni.' Are there no urns to animate us... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1843 - 224 pages
...well as by the stirring representations of Eeality ; and, by poetic pictures of past attachment, ' Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the shrine Becomes religion, and the heart runs o'er With silent worship. * * The dead still rule Our spirits... | |
 | 1843 - 818 pages
...neighbourhood of the Colliseum at Rome ; he talks of the influence it had upon his mind, until he says — . •"The place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the firent of old, The dil:id yet seepteredsuvereigne that still rule Our spirits from ihr ir urns.' Are... | |
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