"Sceptred" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strong dash of insolence, than he will that Thomas was a drunkard. That Paine's speech was undoubtedly plain and his nose undeniably red is as far as Mr. Conway will go. 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 ...
— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell
... accomplishment of this design, the uncounted wealth intrusted to my stewardship has already gathered the mightiest minds in every department of intellect, and the best hearts; and if but a few years are vouchsafed us to carry out the system we have adopted, all Europe, despite her throned and sceptred tyrants, impiously claiming the right to oppress by the will of God, shall be free! Silently but surely, the principle of human liberty is ceaselessly at work, undermining thrones and overthrowing dynasties. The hush that precedes the tornado even now broods over Europe; nations ...
— Edmond Dantes • Edmund Flagg
... stand, Like midnight leaves, when, as the Zephyrs swoon, All on their drooping stems they sink unfann'd,— So into silence droop'd the fairy band, To see their empress dear so pale and still, Crowding her softly round on either hand, As pale as frosty snowdrops, and as chill, To whom the sceptred ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... Sussex gods of sky and sun, Gods never worshipped in a grove, Walk on the hills they used to love, Where the Long Man of Wilmington, Warden of their old frontier, stands And welcomes them with sceptred hands. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various
... what avails the sceptred race? Ah! what the form divine? What every virtue, every grace? ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 • Various |
