 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 sider
...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 Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 sider
...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."... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 198 sider
...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."... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 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 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 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. 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 sider
...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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1921 - 688 sider
...Their decisions are to-day the law in vast regions of which they had never heard. They are, in the law, "The dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Yet their graves are lost and their very names are forgotten. The Persian poet is speaking of lawyers... | |
 | 1861 - 458 sider
...unknown world. The mediaeval revival is a pilgrimage to the homes of our fathers, to the graves of " The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." The heroes of the revival of letters went forth in the spirit of adventure, and are of the same type... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 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. — 'Twas such a night ! 'Tis strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sider
...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... 
