"Imperial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shining, to and by which the individual exists and must order his conduct, is something special to himself and not common to the race. His joys delight, his sorrows wound him, according as THIS is interested or indifferent in the affair; according as they arise in an imperial war or in a broil conducted by the tributary chieftains of the mind. He may lose all, and THIS not suffer; he may lose what is materially a trifle, and THIS leap in his bosom with a cruel pang. I do not speak of it to hardened theorists: ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... sits expectation in the air, And hides a sword, from hilt unto the point, With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets, Promised to Harry and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... slain? why Margarita, Why wife, sure some new device they have a foot again, 225] Some trick upon my credit, I shall meet it, I had rather guide a ship Imperial Alone, and in a storm, ...
— Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... one else is to the fore, shall be to me responsible for the whole, the author, the 'Crier'. Nor can you call this merely my severity or vehemence; for this is the procedure established among almost all nations by right and laws of equity. I will adduce, as universally accepted, the Imperial Civil Law. Read Institut. Justiniani l. IV. De Injuriis, Tit. 4: 'If any one shall write, compose, or publish, or with evil design cause the writing, composing, or publishing, of a book or poem (or story) for the defamation of any one,' &c. ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson
... incident or some outstanding impression. The landscape is doubtless magnificent, but the people one sees on the way are infinitely more interesting. No one, I am sure, can fail to observe the well-groomed, fresh, and imperial aspect of the pier policemen. The general polish of their boots and belts, the self-satisfied, Parnassian smile that never comes off, the spotless gloves, the muscular frame, combine to make up a splendid type of impressive ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
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