 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 páginas
...Death P Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire: Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre: But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of Time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 páginas
...services when insisting on being sent—and in some pestilential climate swift death benumbs " Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd— Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre." It is drudgery to sit six, or eight, or ten hours a-day as a clerk in the India-house ; but Charles... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living Tyre : But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er unroll ;... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 560 páginas
...pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy fhe living lyre. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his... | |
 | Edward Hinchliffe - 1856 - 430 páginas
...pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. "Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little Tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his... | |
 | Salem Town - 1843 - 176 páginas
...YARD. Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart, once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre : But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page. Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; CHAPTER... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 páginas
...death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 páginas
...services when insisting on being sent — and in some pestilential climate swift death benumbs " Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd — Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre." It is drudgery to sit six, or eight, or ten hours a-day as a clerk in the India-house ; but Charles... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 páginas
...make the land of Life." There is equal truth and beauty in the following lines from Gray's " Elegy in a Country Churchyard :" — Perhaps in this neglected...Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Eich with the spoils... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 páginas
...— ' ' Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre." I do not give the couplet on the gem, because I might be told that " purest ray serene " is what we... | |
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Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre. 
