...Their decisions are to-day the law in vast regions of which they had never heard. They are, in the law, "The dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Yet their graves are lost and their very names are forgotten. The Persian poet is speaking of lawyers when...

...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. — 'Twas such a night ! 'Tis strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts...

...brown warblers, hedge-row sweets of home. V. lUrrarg. " The monument of vanish'd minds."—D'AVENANT, " The dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." " Velut fldis arcana sodalibus olim Credebat libris."—HORACE. QUAINT gloomy chamber, oldest relic...

...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. BYKOX. of ISunmn §|dngs. LIKE leaves on trees the life of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...

...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. 'Twas such a night! "Pis strange that I recall it at this time; But I have found our thoughts take...

...attacks of the Secessionists must be attributed to Hamilton's genius and exertions. He is one of those " dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns." Ten days after his appointment to office, Secretary Hamilton was required by Congress to report a plan...

...through which, as we read, we see his hero passing into eternal fame, to take up his place with those dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Froude's book is a tomb over which the lovers of Carlyle's genius will never cease to shed tender but...

...course. In the first place, we may learn something of the inner life and thought of a great people, '•The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urn»." We can get from his own hand the personal life and deeds of the greatest soldier and statesman...

...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. (111.^.36-41) The moon has Astarte's "gentler powers" of tenderness, but none of her subjectivity's...

...till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! 40 The 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 our thoughts take...