Ancient Sea Kings

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:

    “At length they all to merry London came,
    To merry London, my most kindly nurse,
    That to me gave this life’s first native source;
    Though from another place I take my name,
    An house of ancient fame.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Why should kings and nobles have
    Pictured trophies to their grave,
    And we, churls, to thee deny
    Thy pretty toys with thee to lie—
    A more harmless vanity?”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)