Famous quotes containing the words heroic and/or lays:
“It reminded me of Prometheus Bound. Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.”
—James Shirley (1596–1666)