Royal Lion Hunt

Famous quotes containing the words royal, lion and/or hunt:

    “Not to these shores she came! this other Thrace,
    Environ barbarous to the royal Attic;
    How could her delicate dirge run democratic,
    Delivered in a cloudless boundless public place
    To an inordinate race?”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail
    Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “O momentary grace of mortal men,
    Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)