 | Frances Elliot - Sicily (Italy) - 1882 - 358 pages
...of the pedestal, appeared the inscription I was looking for, with half the verses eaten away — " 'So Tally paused — amid the wrecks of time — On the rude stone, to trace the truth sublime, Where, at his feet, in honoured dust disclosed, The immortal Sage of Syracuse reposed. ' " hollowed... | |
 | Thomas Tate - Education - 1885 - 460 pages
...birthplaces or the sepulchres of great men form some of our most remarkable links of association. " 'Twas ever thus. As now at Virgil's tomb We bless...stone to trace the truth sublime, When at his feet, in honored dust disclosed, The Immortal Sage of Syracuse reposed." Picturing out scenes. Children are... | |
 | Thomas Turner Tate - Teaching - 1885 - 460 pages
..." 'Twas ever thus. As now at Virgil's tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom ; So Tully paused, amid the wrecks of Time, On the rude stone to trace the truth sublime, When at his feet, in honored dust disclosed, The Immortal Sage of Syracuse reposed." Picturing out scenes. Children are... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 pages
...when he was young. 1 As now at Virgil's tomb We bless the shade, and bid the verdure bloom ; So Tully paused, amid the wrecks of Time, On the rude stone to trace the truth sublime ; When at his feet, in honoured dust disclosed The immortal Sage of Syracuse reposed. * The line was altered. It now reads... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...ashore. 'Twas ever thus. As now at Virgil's tomb We bless the shade, and bid the verdure bloom: So Tully paused, amid the wrecks of Time. On the rude stone to trace the truth sublime; When at his feet in honoured dust disclosed, The immortal sage of Syracuse reposed. And as he long in sweet delusion hung... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...Virgil's tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom ; So Tully paused, amid the wrecks of Tune, On the rude stone to trace the truth sublime ; When at his feet, in honoured dust disclosed, The immortal Sage of Syracuse reposed. And, as h&Jojig in sweet delusion hung,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Welbore St. Clair Baddeley - Sicily - 1905 - 244 pages
...most distinguished citizen, unless she had learned it from a man of Arpinum.' — Tusc. Disp. v. 23. * So Tally paused, amid the wrecks of Time, On the rude...to trace the truth sublime ; When at his feet, in honoured dust disclosed, The immortal sage of Syracuse reposed.' — Rogers, Pleasure! of Memory. This... | |
 | Christopher J. P. Smith - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 394 pages
...storm or wintry blast'. 27 He adopts one key phrase from Rogers' poem (my emphasis): So TULLY paus'd, amid the wrecks of Time, On the rude stone to trace...truth sublime; When at his feet, in honour'd dust disclos'd, The immortal Sage of Syracuse repos'd. (Rogers, p. 25) 28 Coleridge (CP p. 65) in his poem... | |
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Twas ever thus. As now at VIRGIL'S tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom ; So TULLY paused, amid the wrecks of Time, On the rude stone to trace the truth sublime ; When at his feet, in honoured dust disclosed, The immortal Sage of Syracuse... 
