Wanli Emperor/late Reign 1600%e2%80%931620

Famous quotes containing the words emperor, late and/or reign:

    Even the emperor has poor relations.
    Chinese proverb.

    Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer,
    Great England’s glory and the world’s wide wonder,
    Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder,
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    For sov’reign pow’r reign not alone,
    Grace is the partner of the throne;
    Thy grace and justice mighty Lord,
    Shall well divide our last reward.
    Isaac Watts (1674–1748)