"Despotical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know her slavish thrall To the strange sway despotical Of that strong figment, Fashion; But is there nought in this to move The being born for grace and love ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 14, 1892 • Various
... King James's proceedings against the universities, and that several of the clergy wrote over to the Prince of Orange to engage in their quarrel, adds:—When that was communicated to me, I was still of opinion, that, though this was indeed an act of despotical and arbitrary power, yet I did not think it struck at the whole: So that it was not in my opinion a lawful case of resistance.—Swift. He was a better Tory than I, if he ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift |
