"Sovran" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were employed to purge and purify mortal eyes. Pliny is very learned about the magical virtues of rue. Just as the stolen potato is sovran for rheumatism, so 'rue stolen thriveth the best.' The Samoans think that their most valued vegetables were stolen from heaven by a Samoan visitor. {152a} It is remarkable that rue, according to Pliny, is killed by the ...
— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang
... doubt it yieldeth place, If mine own self did ne'er his power prove? Whence knew I the deep sense that in the soul Is thrill'd and thrall'd by perfect beauty's sight, If never beauty did myself control With all the mastery of sovran might? Since so my heart laid bare what it contain'd Of understanding of love's mysteries, And nought of thine or mine our loving stain'd, That I should hide it from misprising eyes, No shame or scruple might my judgement see ...
— Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost • Gregory Thornton
... as upon a terrace, on an eminence vastly above the audience, and he kept that sublime level to the end. He looked from his throne of elevated sentiment upon the under-world of spectators with a most sovran and becoming contempt. There was excellent pathos delivered out to them: an they would receive it, so; an they would not receive it, so. There was no offence against decorum in all this; nothing to condemn, to damn. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various
... the same spirit in which they imitated their forerunners: even as the Christian is bound to seek union with Christ in the same spirit or way in which Jesus had achieved union with his Father—that is, by laying down life to take it again, in meekness and lowliness of heart. Docility is the sovran help to perfection for Duerer and Reynolds, and more or less explicitly for all other great artists who have treated of ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... burns him for the "heavenly quintessence" as Marlowe calls it, there is also the ghastly danger of reaction. The pitiless hands of Joy "are ever at his lips, bidding adieu" and "veiled melancholy has her 'sovran shrine' in the heart of ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked Chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... times, and he said, "O King of the Age, verily I would say to thee somewhat, and thine is the rede whether thou wilt hearken or not to my say." Now he was the King's privy Councillor and the Chief Officer of his empire, and the Sovran was wont to give ear to his word and conduct himself by his counsel and gainsay him not in aught. So he rose and kissing ground before his liege lord, said to him, "O King of the Age, if I advise thee in this matter, wilt thou follow ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... discoverers, lonely pioneers, Prisoners and exiles, martyrs of the truth Who handed on the fire, from age to age; Of those who, step by step, drove back the night And struggled, year on year, for one more glimpse Among the stars, of sovran law, their guide; Of those who searching inward, saw the rocks Dissolving into a new abyss, and saw Those planetary systems far within, Atoms, electrons, whirling on their way To build and to unbuild our solid world; Of ...
— Watchers of the Sky • Alfred Noyes |
