...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,...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. SIR WALTER SCOTT. 1771-1832. FROM "THE LAY Of THE LAST MINSTREL." THK feast was over in Branksome tower,...

...Dylem gymdeithasu â'r henafiaid yn gystal a'n cyfoedion. Edmygu, nid addoli, yr henafiaid mawreddog. " The great of old, The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Byddai yn dda i chwi wneuthur eich hunain yn adnabyddus âg ysgrifeniadau yr athronwyr hyny ag sydd...

...of Constantine and Titus, and the Flavian amphitheatre, the Niagara of ruins ! " The heart run* o'er With silent worship of the great of old; The dead...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." This is no poetic exaggeration. I am inclined to think Byron is the only person who can describe sensations...

...still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er b@F 4 — 'Twas such a night! Tis strange that I recall it at this time; But, I have found, our thoughts...

...of Constantino and Titus, and the Flavian amphitheatre, the Niagara of ruins! " The heart runs o'er With silent worship of the great of old; The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who stilt rale Our spirits from their urns." This is no poetic exaggeration. I am inclined to think Byron...

...still was so. And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er — 'T was such a night : 'Tis strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts...

...SWING. Engraved by Henry Cook ; from a Painting by W. Andrews 325 THE MIGHTY DEAD. BY CAMILLA TOULMIN. " The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." BrBON. ERE beauteous earth had ever felt decay, When man first knew it for a resting-place, And this,...

...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,...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Matthews observes, in his " Diary of an Invalid," " I drove at midnight to see the Coliseum by moonlight...

...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...

...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...