| 单词 | sceptred |
| 例句 | But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Marvel’s slightly tokenistic Captain Britain is Brian Braddock, an upstanding man of science forced to accept that magic exists when Merlin – yes, that Merlin – transforms him into the protector of our sceptred isle. After Chris Pratt’s galactic triumph, which other sitcom stars should become heroes? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Even without Lithgow’s Churchill, The Crown looks set to ruffle feathers across this sceptred isle. John Lithgow: 'When the Brexit movie lands, I call dibs on Boris Johnson' 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z They like it that way on the sceptred isle, defined by rising chalky cliffs, so green and apart. The Big Brexit Shockwave 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z On the Bard's 450th birthday, take a tour of the "sceptred isle" that inspired his works - and look at how the locations have changed. A tour of Shakespeare's England 2014-04-22T23:05:56Z The idea which emerged was a potted history of this sceptred isle, starting with the Thames which a deftly edited film followed from its source to Big Ben. Palace coup provides master stroke 2012-07-28T02:06:23Z The dead kings are crowned once more, and from the shadows of the past emerge the queens, jeweled and sceptred as of yore. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z In twelve years Judæa and Palestine and Antioch have had the new doctrine planted among them, and then it is set up in Rome, the sceptred head of heathendom. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Yet in that band, whose glory is the frown Of sceptred tyranny and stained device, Thou hast a place; and thee it shall suffice To tread with them the path to high renown. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems 2011-11-27T03:00:13.943Z "Not quite all," said Mr. Lumley, sinking on one knee, as Di came in crowned and sceptred, in a green and silver gown edged with ermine. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Before awful councils and sceptred rulers they bear witness to the precious truth. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z How beautiful and all-sufficing to the mind is the line expressing the utter satisfaction of a victorious lover:— "Crowned with a kiss and sceptred with a joy!" Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z By whom shall his imperial sceptred hand Be emptied so? The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z We are like children who think a king must needs go about in royal robes, crowned and sceptred. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z The temporal on the heart's throne is ever the usurper; the spiritual crowned and sceptred, ruler by right divine. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself, . Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Oh, for a song to cleanse the heart Or touch the sceptred power; Oh, might the gods a strength impart To meet this tragic hour. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Of course, this will be viewed as a bit of a nothing match by many on this sceptred isle. South Korea v Greece - live! 2010-06-12T10:28:00Z Whether it is suspicion eats in me, Mistrust and fret and doubt—of whom I say not, Or whether desire, and unsubduable, To see Amaury sceptred—I care not. Yolanda of Cyprus Earth’s genuine sons, the sceptred, and the slave, A mingled mob! a wandering herd! he sees, 1090 Bewilder’d in the vale; in all unlike! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes No, nor sweet Summer when adown the land Her flower-sprent steps incline, Bearing the sceptred iris in her hand,— The glory still is thine. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West The lands by thee discover'd shall obey Thy sceptred power, and bless thy regal sway. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Now, Reader, learn from this my fate, how false, How treacherous to her promise, is the world; And trust in God—to whose eternal doom Must bend the sceptred Potentates of earth. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) Since you are Lusignan, Heir of a sceptred line, And yet may reach—the realm. Yolanda of Cyprus It is a pin that Death pierces the king's fortress wall with; and Carelessness and Folly sit sceptred and dreadful, side by side with the pin-armed skeleton. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) They survive not in their institutions, but in their ideas, and by their ideas, especially on the art of government, they are— The dead, but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns. The History of Freedom The present orthography has introduced an awkward mode of writing the derivatives, for example, centred, sceptred, sepulchred; whereas Milton and Pope wrote these words as regular derivatives of center, scepter, sepulcher, thus, 'Sceptered king.' Noah Webster American Men of Letters This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden—demi-paradise—.... By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects These sceptred strangers shun the common salt, 137 And, therefore, when the general board’s in view And they stand up to carve for blind and halt, The wise suspect the viands which ensue. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV From siren alluring flesh whose touch was woe, she was become a sceptred angel, far, far away, so tantalizingly far away! The Missourian Invariably does the poet class religion and oppression together—"Religion veils her eyes: Oppression shrinks aghast."—"Destruction's sceptred slaves, and Folly's mitred brood."—"And laughter fills the Fane, and curses shake the Throne." Flowers of Freethought (First Series) "God save the Guillotine, Till England's King and Queen Her power shall prove; When all the sceptred crew Have paid their homage to The Guillotine!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Till, trembling with excessive awe and love, Each sceptred spirit sank before the Throne With a mute hallelujah. The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems Further on there were ranks and ranks of tall callas, stately as sceptred queens, starry narcissus, white as snow, and jasmine bouvardias, with ivory tube-like blossoms in fragrant clusters. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Ye Shades of those who here Stood up in bonds before the slaves of sceptred fraud and fear! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature I have wealth and possessions and respect as great as if I were a sceptred King. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts Famed for their civil and domestic quarrels See heartless Henry lies by headless Charles; Between them stands another sceptred thing, It lives, it reigns—"aye, every inch a king." The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry Proud and erect, with manly steps and strong, I'll come a Conqueror and a King, to lead With sceptred hand forth from her bower my bride, And bid Castile adore her, like Cæsario. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 Milton, let me point out, makes "gorgeous Tragedy in sceptred pall," sweep across, not the planks of a theatre, but the scholar's thought as he sits alone with his book of nights. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Summer flowers had passed, but bryony mantled the bushes in luxuriant beauty, and kingly teazles raised their diademed heads, and exultingly stretched forth their sceptred arms. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster But mercy is above this sceptred sway— It is enthron'd in the hearts of kings. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical For sceptred Cynics Earth were far too wide a den. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 And yet he sits a sceptred king—in his own dear native isle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Thus I enjoin the crew; but as for those Of sceptred rank, I bid them all alike To my own board, that here we may regale The stranger nobly, and let none refuse. The Odyssey of Homer And yet she was shaken, as if that destiny which men thought of as a sceptred deity had come to her, and grasped her with fingers of flesh. Romola Changed in all things essential, she was yet a mighty sceptred potentate for the world until her dependency on Attila's good-will and forbearance. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 “The Act regarding them was yestermorn sceptred by the King’s Grace.” Mistress Margery Their voice is heard above Herodias' strains of revelry and even sceptred Sadducees tremble at the sound. St. Cuthbert's Fiends robed and sceptred, once reigned over fiends clothed in skins and armed with broadsword and battle axe. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection He is one of those "dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Enough for me: with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.’ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys The dying patriot apostrophises England in the familiar phrases, as:— This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle.... Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Men will not kneel to sceptred slaves, nor freemen fight for tyrants' tools. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History In all the world then surely was but one Song; as in heaven at highest one sceptred sun Regent, on earth here surely without fail One only, one imperious nightingale. Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Go forth in arms; Jehovah reigns; Their graves let foul oppressors find; Bind all their sceptred kings in chains; Their peers with iron fetters bind. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. The Hundred Best English Poems While yet a youth, by venturous hope impell'd, Thro' foreign climes my devious course I held; And came at last, where high in ether shine The golden towers of sceptred Constantine. Gustavus Vasa and other poems While Nature slept, Magic, sceptred with a wand, sat on her throne. Berry And Co. It is lamentable enough to have to exclaim—as we must over so much of human history— "Ah! what avails the sceptred race And what the form divine?..." Adventures in Criticism And that—some supple courtier of my heir Shall use its robed and sceptred arm, perhaps, To fix the rope to, which best drags it down. Men and Women Homer's description of the muster of the forces on this occasion is very beautiful: The sceptred rulers lead; the following host, Pour'd forth by thousands, darkens all the coast. The Story of Troy Why art thou sad, thou of the sceptred hand? A Handbook for Latin Clubs So saying, he left the council; him, at once The sceptred Chiefs, obedient to his voice, Arising, follow'd; and the throng began. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper My sons have chosen before their father’s life A lordly throne and sceptred sovereignty. The Seven Plays in English Verse His sceptred hand He forth in token of forgiveness stretch'd, And clapp'd his cheeks, and courted him with gifts, And he became once more his favorite page. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 The winds have tied the drifted snow Around the face and chin; and lo, The sceptred Giants come and go, And shake their shadowy crowns and say: 'We always feared it would be so!' The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit But mercy is above this sceptred sway: It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Voices for the Speechless Thou, the heir of a thousand chiefs, sceptred and royal-- Thou to kneel to the Norman and swear to be loyal! Poems Lift up your hearts, ye Mourners! for the might Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes; Blessings and prayers, in nobler retinue Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror knows, Follow this wondrous Potentate. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 582, December 22, 1832 If we are to follow the biographer the whole way, we must not only unhang the dog, but give him sepulture amongst the sceptred Sovereigns who rule us from their urns. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays The human mind, that lofty thing, The palace and the throne, Where reason sits, a sceptred king, And breathes his judgment tone; Oh! The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet But, oh! that symbol of purest faith Had cheer'd the heart in the hour of death, And shone triumphant o'er the brave As they crush'd the power of the sceptred slave. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 To submit to this crowned and sceptred Christ; to reject for ever the other—this meant relief and sanity. Dawn of All There the ghost of the dead empire still sat throned and sceptred. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Here sceptred monarchs in death's slumbers lie, Tudors, Plantagenets—they too could die! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829 The colossal angels at Assisi, solemn sceptred kingly forms, all alike in action and attitude, appeared to me magnificent. Literary and General Lectures and Essays Let us listen to the solemn voice of a princess, who comes sweeping in the sceptred pall of gorgeous tragedy, to inform us that half herself has buried the other half. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 High on his car Sesostris struck my view, Whom sceptred slaves in golden harness drew: His hands a bow and pointed javelin hold; His giant limbs are arm'd in scales of gold. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Parent of the sceptred race, Fearless tread the circled space: Fearless Fleance venture near— Sire of monarchs—spurn at fear. Poems The young man stalked into his vacant nunnery in a rage, a dismal pomp of emotion: reason telling him that a friend had spoken sense, imagination clothing him in the sceptred pall of tragedy. Dragon's blood High moral and intellectual qualities make the natural kings of men, and these are so rarely found in sceptred families that a republic is the safest form of government. Sonnets Did Tragedy, in Milton's immortal expression, ———come sweeping by In sceptred pall? Note Book of an English Opium-Eater What sceptred chief, Dying, hath left his troops without a lord? Mosaics of Grecian History The poet says:— "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by." The Duel Between France and Germany Thee, the first honours of the war adorn, Like gods in strength, and of a goddess born; Him, awful majesty exalts above The powers of earth, and sceptred sons of Jove. The Iliad Heaven, the Moors prevail! the Christians yield! Their coward leader gives for flight the sign! The sceptred craven mounts to quit the field - Is not yon steed Orelio? Some Poems Once more he held sceptred sway over races long since in oblivion. AE in the Irish Theosophist Caligula was both, sceptred at that; and with what a sceptre! Imperial Purple Yet was Zeus fulfilling a purpose; Since that far-off day, when in hot strife parted asunder Atreus' sceptred son, and the chos'n of heaven, Achilles. Verses and Translations Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey: The sceptred rulers lead; the following host, Pour'd forth by thousands, darkens all the coast. The Iliad They have been villainously dealt with by the sceptred thieves of Europe, and I hope they will drive all the foreigners out and keep them out for good. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) This great office had twice been ably filled by women, women as aptly fitted for it as some of the sceptred queens of history. The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches This sceptred misanthrope possessed it, and it was in that his wife was blessed. Imperial Purple She lightly passed; nor did she once opine How, better than all books, she had raised for me In swift perspective Europe's history Through the vast years of Caesar's sceptred line. Poems of the Past and the Present Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. The Odyssey So spake he, and led the way forth from the council, and all the other sceptred chiefs rose with him and obeyed the shepherd of the host; and the people hastened to them. The Iliad As she mounted the stairs, she stood there for a moment crowned and sceptred, before sitting down, and in that moment he recognized the whole scene. The Midnight Queen The sceptred Julian believed in God, and had his own little superstitions. My Ten Years' Imprisonment Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old: "The dead but sceptred sovrans, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." Character The sparkling illustrations of Butler have been thrown into the shade by the brighter glory of that gorgeous satiric Muse, who comes sweeping by in sceptred pall, borrowed from her most august sisters. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 With this he led the way from the assembly, and the other sceptred kings rose with him in obedience to the word of Agamemnon; but the people pressed forward to hear. The Iliad But, intrinsically, he had slight esteem for “those dead but sceptred spirits”; having qualified himself for forming an independent opinion by reading Potter’s Æschylus, and dipping into Francis’s Horace. The Lifted Veil Born in the purple, his imperial soul Sits crowned and sceptred in the realms of mind. Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems To the noble youths I give this commandment; but ye others, sceptred kings, come to my fair dwelling, that we may entertain the stranger in the halls, and let no man make excuse. The Odyssey Done into English prose Thou sway'st thy sceptred beam O'er all delight and dream, Beauty is beautiful but in thy glance: And like a jocund maid In garland-flowers arrayed, Before thy ark Earth keeps her sacred dance. New Poems He spake and led the way, and the sceptred kings accompanied him, while the henchmen went for the divine minstrel. The Odyssey Done into English prose |
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