 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 rule Our spirits from their urns.  The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine - Page 2951817Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1893 - 368 pages
...but sceptred 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...when they should array Themselves in pensive order. Enter the ABBOT. Abbot. My good lord ! I crave a second grace for this approach; But yet let not my... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...reception. Emerson. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. Gtorge Eliot. nson. That@ , Byron, Our time is fixed, and all our days are numbered ; / How long, how short, we know not : this... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule 4o Our spirits from their urns. — 'Twas such a night ! 'Tis strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have...when they should array Themselves in pensive order. [ST. PETER'S.] CHILDE HAROLD, CANTO /i'. CLIII. BUT lo ! the dome — the vast and wondrous dome, To... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Oar spirits from their urns. — 'Twas such a night ! Tis strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts take wildest flight [array Even at the moment when they should Themselves in pensive order. MY NATIVE LANIV-GOOD NIGHT.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...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 take wildest flight [array Even at the moment when they should Themselves in pensive order. MY NATIVE LAND— GOOD NIGHT.... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...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...when they should array Themselves in pensive order. If Wordsworth at times recognises agencies making for evil in nature, Byron occasionally dwells on... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...dead, but sceptred, Sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. 'Twos such a night ! Tis n Autobiography of the Author (three series, 1838-57; ed. by JG Wood, 1878). His account Kven at the moment when they should array Themselves in pensive order. (From Ac[ ш ^ 4-) Speech of... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. "fwas such a night ! ' T is Enter the ABBOT. Abbot. My good lord '• 1 crave a second grace for this approach '• But yet let... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1904 - 888 pages
...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 ortr thoughts take wildest flight Even at the moment when they should array Themselves in pensive order.... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...but sceptred 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...they should array Themselves in pensive order. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON; A FABLE SONNET ON CHILLON ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in... | |
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