 | 1864 - 492 pages
...out the tissues of a heart whose fibres were originally fine and tender, almost to femininity; — "And he is gathered to the kings of thought, Who waged...decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away." Another octogenarian October claimed, John Bowyer Nichols, a man hereditarily devoted to literature.... | |
 | 1857 - 588 pages
...them on along the predestined " groves of change," is to be historically great, is to be one of— " The kings of thought, Who waged contention with their...And of the Past are all, — that cannot pass away." At the day-dawn of an event, the great man is up, girt for toil ; he thinks, he works, his thought... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 274 pages
...a hun' dred winters ' on the Ionian master, favoured Adonais with ' great genius and early death ': And he is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention with their times' decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. It gave me a real joy to think, that by... | |
 | George Anderson (of Glasgow) - 1859 - 304 pages
...ANDERSON, GLASGOW. ONE OF THO3E HIGHLY COMMENDED BY THE JUDGES AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPETITION. ' For he is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention...And, of the past, are all that cannot pass away." — SIIEI.LEY. TIME rolls apace, and draws its sombre curtain O'er generations passing from our view;... | |
 | George Anderson, John Finlay - 1859 - 322 pages
...AXDERSON. GLASGOW. ONE OF THOSE HIGHLY COMMENDED RY THE JUDGES AT TDK CRY8TAL FALACI COMPETITION. " For he is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention...decay, And, of the past, are all that cannot pass away."—SHELLEY. TIME rolls apace, and draws its sombre curtain O'er generations passing from our... | |
 | 1862 - 348 pages
...in the tears of his friends and of all who love the gentle craft of verse, is this sad memorial : " And he is gathered to the kings of thought, Who waged...decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away." sw D. ,.,•» Wm. Howitt, in his " Homes of the Poets," has called attention to the fact that the... | |
 | 1864 - 974 pages
...tissues of a heart whose fibres were originally fine and tender, almost to femininity; — " And he il gathered to the kings of thought, Who waged contention...decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away." Another octogenarian October claimed, John Bowyer Niehole, a man hereditarily devoted to literature.... | |
 | 1855 - 394 pages
...which is the sepulchre, O, not of him, but of our joy : 'tis nought That ages, empires, and religions, there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought ;...the kings of thought Who waged contention with their times' decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. XLIX. Go thou to Rome, — at once the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...which is the sepulchre, Oh not of him, but of our joy. "Pis nought That ages, empires, and religions, there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought ;...decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. XLIX. Go thou to Rome, — at once the paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...Rome, which is the sepulchre, Oh, not of him, but of our joy : 'tis nought That ages, empires, aud religious, there Lie buried in the ravage they have...the kings of thought Who waged contention with their times decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away, xux. Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise,... | |
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That ages, empires, and religions there Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought; For such as he can lend, — they borrow not Glory from those who made the world their prey; And he is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention with their... 
