 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
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pages
...those which we accord to the great poets of antiquity, or the elder worthies of our own country — " the dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns 1." The thing, if it were desirable, would be impossible; for by no effort can we invest the present... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 pages
...concourse of the nations, and awake, from the sleep of centuries, the Roman people and the senate, with The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. In the first and second books, the reader is in Rome, from the second year of Claudius to the close... | |
 | 1843 - 594 pages
...those which we accord to the great poets of antiquity, or the elder worthies of our own country — ' the dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns ?' The thing, if it were desirable, would be impossible; for by no effort can we invest the present... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, As 'twere anew, the gaps ve lost your way. Mar. We wanted no ghost to tell us that. Tony. Pray, gentlemen, rale Our spirits from their urne ! [From ' Don Juan.'] Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, As 'twere anew, the gaps mbers role Our spirits from their urns ! [77«; Shipwreck.] [Prom ' Don Juan.'] Twas twilight, and the sunless... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 pages
...this And cast a wide and tender light, which softened down The hoar austerity of rugged desolation, Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making...the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er In silent worship.' ONE cannot write, by any possibility, with a sense of pleasure, when his subject... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...and fil1'd up, As 'twere, anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old !" — p. 68, 69. In his dying hour he is beset with Demons, who prefend to claim him as their forfeit;.... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 294 pages
...the stirring representations of Reality; and, by poetic pictures of past attachment, " Leaving tbat beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the sliriui? Becomes religion, and the heart runs o'er With silent worship. * * The dead still rule Our... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1844 - 1382 pages
...dwellings of Attica — I hoped to discover the secret of that moral alchemy by which were formed Those dead, but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. In these haunts, little familiar to our imagination, lay concealed the germs of law, good government,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and fill'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 ! 'T is strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts... | |
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