Appointed Successor Held

Famous quotes containing the words appointed, successor and/or held:

    “Like pilgrims to th’ appointed place we tend;
    The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “They darted down and rose up like a wave
    Or buzzed impetuously as before;
    One would have thought the corpse was held a slave
    To living by the life it bore!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)