Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself

That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 226.

Here lies our sovereign lord the king,

Whose word no man relies on;

He never says a foolish thing,

Nor ever does a wise one.

Earl Of Rochester (1647-1680): Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II.

What constitutes a state?

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Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.

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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,

O'er thrones and globes elate,

Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Sir William Jones (1746-1794): Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus.

Here lies our sovereign lord the king,

Whose word no man relies on;

He never says a foolish thing,

Nor ever does a wise one.

Earl Of Rochester (1647-1680): Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,

And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,

Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto xi. St. 33.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 362.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;

Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,

The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,

Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;

Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:

Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Which shall to all our nights and days to come

Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.