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... Southern Quarterly Review - Page 223edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
| John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1843 - 424 pages
...not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old I The dead, but sceptred 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... | |
| 1843 - 594 pages
...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 ?' The thing, if it were desirable, would be impossible; for by no effort can we invest the present... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1843 - 616 pages
...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the grest of old 1 — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Considerable speculation has been occasioned by the holes which are seen in the exterior wall of the... | |
| Jeremiah Donovan - Rome - 1844 - 1002 pages
...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 rule THE TEMPLE OF PEACE. It stood near the via The Sacra (a), the forum of Nerva (£) and the Roman forum... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er ert Chambers role Our spirits from their urns ! [77«; Shipwreck.] [Prom ' Don Juan.'] Twas twilight, and the sunless... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er of an unmannerly answer. Hast. At present, however, we are not likely to receive any ans rale Our spirits from their urne ! [From ' Don Juan.'] Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down... | |
| James Augustus St. John - Greece - 1844 - 1382 pages
...dwellings of Attica — I hoped to discover the secret of that moral alchemy by which were formed Those dead, but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. In these haunts, little familiar to our imagination, lay concealed the germs of law, good government,... | |
| William Mitchell Gillespie - Rome (Italy) - 1845 - 230 pages
...their greatness of conception and execution, until 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." On my way out, I stopped to talk with the sentinel at the entrance, stationed there to protect visitors... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. — 'T was such a night ! 'T is strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts... | |
| William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...which I was beholding, their eyes had rested more than eighteen hundred years ago. Here had stood " The great of old, The dead but sceptred sovereigns,...-who still rule Our spirits from their urns." One comparatively recent association with this structure is interesting. The unrivalled artist of modern... | |
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