Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or sweet:
“now
I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
When Alexanders empire passed, they slept so sound.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained,
And prayed me oft forbearance; did it with
A pudency so rosy the sweet view ont
Might well have warmed old Saturn; that I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)