 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 sider
...BOOKS 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 ot their culture; and by them are disciplined in youth, stimulated in... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - 384 sider
...in his still study, or under the groves of golden Italy, and, in quaint dialogue, or fine pantomime, conversing with the past. The "dead, but sceptred...stands with folded arms and collected might, as when he wont to "shake the arsenal and fulmine over Greece." Aspasia bends beside him her majestic form, and... | |
 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 360 sider
...soft 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... | |
 | John Peyre Thomas - 1857 - 432 sider
...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 - 516 sider
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 564 sider
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 592 sider
...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... | |
 | John Kitto - 1857 - 516 sider
...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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
...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... | |
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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... 
