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" From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire,... "
The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 137
by British poets - 1822
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...

Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...by Fate. From hence he does that antique pile1 behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold : It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep ;...rage : Hard by that House 3 where all our ills were shap'd The' auspicious temple stood, and yet esoap'd. So snow on ./Etna does unmelted lie, Whence rolling...
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Poems on Westminster abbey, the immortal lord viscount Nelson, &c. &c. &c

M. Bailey - 1807 - 38 pages
...broad, and at the Cross IQo. Here most of our monarehs have been crowned and many of them interred. . It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There...sleep : Making the circle of their reign complete, These Sons- of Empire, where they rise they set. • • WALLER. ON if & ON LIFE AND DEATH. и LIFE'S...
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The ambulator; or, The stranger's companion in a tour round London ...

John Bew - 1807 - 408 pages
...improved. Here most of our monarchs have been crowned, and many of them interred — It gives them crown?, and does their ashes keep ; There made like gods,...sleep ; Making the circle of their reign complete, These tuns of empire, where they rise they set! WALLER. This structure contains a great number of monuments...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made likegods, likemortalstherethey sleeps _ Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns...standing, did presage The crown should triumph over pop'lar rage : Hard by that house ', where .ill our ills were shap'd, Th' auspicious temple stood,...
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A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English ...

William Upcott - Bibliotheca topographica britannica - 1818 - 498 pages
...engraven. " From hence we may that Antique Pile behold Where Royal Heads receive the sacred Gold : It gives them Crowns, and does their Ashes keep, There...there they sleep : Making the circle of their Reign compleat, Those Suns of Empire, where they Rise they Set." WALLER to King Charles on Beautifying the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...by Fate. From hence he does that antique pile ' behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold : It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There...standing, did presage The crown should triumph over pop'lar rage : Hard by that house 6, where all our ills were shap'd, Th' auspicious temple stood, and...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 1

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 572 pages
...taste : — " From hence he does that antique pile behold, WThere royal heads receive the sacred gold ; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep ;...There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep." " Passant plus outre il voit la chapelle ou nos rois Recoivent l'or sacre et leur gardant les loix,...
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London as it is to-day

1851 - 492 pages
...WESTMINSTER ABBEY. From hence we may that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold ; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep There...sleep ; Making the circle of their reign complete, There suns of empire, where they rise they set ! — Watkr. Westminster Abbey may not inaptly be called...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Great Britain - 1853 - 568 pages
...taste : — " From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold ; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep ;...There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep." " Passant plus outre il voit la chapelle ou nos rois Reyoivent 1'or sacre et leur gardant les loix,...
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Poetical Works of Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1854 - 276 pages
...approved by Fate. From hence he does that antique pilet behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There...presage The crown should triumph over popular rage; Paille-maille, from winch the street took its name. Pail'.e-maille was a species of bowls played with...
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