...BOOKS are an essential element of our social economy. The best minds of every age are trained by Those dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. From books they receive most ot their culture; and by them are disciplined in youth, stimulated in...

...of centuries : Leaving that beautiful which still wns so, And making that which was not, till (lie place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With...— The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule CLXXXI. — LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS. 1. IN no respect docs the Hebrew nation appear to greater...

...present. For weeks we spent long days, and the soft twilight hours, among them; " And the heart ran over, With silent worship of the great of old, The dead,...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Our first visit was to the Roman Forum, which certainly possesses more thrilling interest than any...

...under the groves of golden Italy, and, in quaint dialogue, or fine pantomime, conversing with the past. The "dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns," appear at his spell, and range themselves around him. Pericles, the Jupiter of Athens, stands with...

...altogether lost to us ; lie belongs to those regal intellects whose dominion never ceases — Those dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. His writings will rank him among great philosophers, as his admirable career has placed him among the...

...more extensive dominion than that which they possessed over their own contemporaries. Among these " Dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns," none deserve a loftier niche in the temple of fame, and few have had greater influence upon succeeding...

...are an essential element of our social economy. The best minds of every age are trained by " Those dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." From books they receive most of their culture ; and by them are disciplined in youth, stimulated in...

...more extensive dominion than that which they possessed over their own contemporaries. Among these — "Dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." None deserve a loftier niche in the temple of fame, and few have had greater influence upon succeeding...

...are an essential element of our social economy. The best minds of every age are trained by " Those dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." From books they receive most of their culture ; and by them are disciplined in youth, stimulated in...

...cast a wide and tender light, Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, As 'twere anew the gaps of centuries; Leaving...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns ! BYBON.— Adap. THE VOICE OF SPRING. I come, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains...