 From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire,...  Poetical Works of Edmund Waller - Seite 175von Edmund Waller - 1854 - 256 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | M. Bailey - 1807 - 38 Seiten
...broad, and at the Cross IQo. Here most of our monarehs have been crowned and many of them interred. . It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There...sleep : Making the circle of their reign complete, These Sons- of Empire, where they rise they set. • • WALLER. ON if & ON LIFE AND DEATH. и LIFE'S... | |
 | John Bew - 1807 - 408 Seiten
...improved. Here most of our monarchs have been crowned, and many of them interred — It gives them crown?, and does their ashes keep ; There made like gods,...sleep ; Making the circle of their reign complete, These tuns of empire, where they rise they set! WALLER. This structure contains a great number of monuments... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...present state Of their proud founders, were approv'd by Fate. From hence he does that antique pile ' behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold...them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made likegods, likemortalstherethey sleeps _ Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire... | |
 | William Upcott - 1818 - 498 Seiten
...emblazoned. Adorn'd with Draughts of the Tombs curiously engraven. " From hence we may that Antique Pile behold Where Royal Heads receive the sacred Gold :...there they sleep : Making the circle of their Reign compleat, Those Suns of Empire, where they Rise they Set." WALLER to King Charles on Beautifying the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 Seiten
...present state Of their proud founders, were approv'd by Fate. From hence he does that antique pile ' behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold...standing, did presage The crown should triumph over pop'lar rage : Hard by that house 6, where all our ills were shap'd, Th' auspicious temple stood, and... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1846 - 572 Seiten
...Westminster Abbey, he has given with much taste : — " From hence he does that antique pile behold, WThere royal heads receive the sacred gold ; It gives them...There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep." " Passant plus outre il voit la chapelle ou nos rois Recoivent l'or sacre et leur gardant les loix,... | |
 | 1851 - 492 Seiten
...o.il' ji :a prihr.ue. iw iiijzi , veil Total WESTMINSTER ABBEY. From hence we may that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold...sleep ; Making the circle of their reign complete, There suns of empire, where they rise they set ! — Watkr. Westminster Abbey may not inaptly be called... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 Seiten
...Waller's, on Westminster Abbey, he has given with much taste : — " From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold...There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep." " Passant plus outre il voit la chapelle ou nos rois Reyoivent 1'or sacre et leur gardant les loix,... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 412 Seiten
...Members—The Thames, Bridges, and Tunnel. . . • " From hence we may that antique pile behold, Where regal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns,...sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, The suns of empire, where they rise they set." WESTMINSTER ABBEY has been called, with much propriety,... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 418 Seiten
...Members—The Thames, Bridges, and Tunnel. " From hence we may that antique pile behold, Where regal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns,...sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, The suns of empire, where they rise they set." WESTMINSTER ABBEY has been called, with much propriety,... | |
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