 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...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, Itich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll : Chill... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 pages
...? 12. 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. 13. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...Death? -oPerhaps 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... | |
 | Howard Sandison - Education, Primary - 1886 - 496 pages
...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 penury... | |
 | Reginald Heber Holbrook - 1886 - 56 pages
...respect. 13. Perhacs 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. INTRODUCTORY. — Having made a species of defence or vindicntion of the " rude forefathers " as to... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...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 Penury... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 pages
...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 penury... | |
 | George Prentiss Butler - English language - 1894 - 284 pages
...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 penury... | |
 | Redruth, Eng. (Parish) - Church records and registers - 1894 - 256 pages
...SMITH. " 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," — GRAY, "Elegy." PREFACE. This volume makes no pretence to completeness, but is, I trust, correct:... | |
 | Harry Speight - Botany - 1894 - 592 pages
...heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant oí his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his... | |
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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. 
