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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us, Showing his shield A shelter for peace. Esaias Twiner—Fridthjof's Saga. Canto XXI. St. 7. Broad-based upon her people's will. And compassed by the inviolate sea. | author = Tennyson | work = To the Queen. St. 9. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wordsworth) In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. | author = Tennyson | work = Idylls of the King. Dedication. L. 26. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Royalty | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. Thackeray—Round Head Papers. On Ribbons. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Royalty | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas. The king reigns but does not govern. Thiers. In an early number of the National, a newspaper under the direction of himself and his political friends six months before the dissolution of the monarchy. July 1, 1830. Jan Zamoyskl in the Polish and Hungarian Diets. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bismarck}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Royalty | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux; Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aieux. The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors. Voltaire—Merope. I. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Royalty | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped—to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations he In veneration and the people's love. Wordsworth—Excursion. Bk. IV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson) A partial world will listen to my lays, While Anna reigns, and sets a female name Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame. Young—Force of Religion. Bk. I. L. 6. RUIN Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. | author = Addison | work = Horace. Ode III. Bk. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ruin | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humble pride the lesson just By Time's slow finger written in the dust. Mrs. Baubauld—Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Goldsmith, London Magazine, Macaulay, Shelley, Volney, Walpole, White}}) | topic = Ruin | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt Ruin | num = 22 | text = There is a temple in ruin stands, Fashion'd by long forgotten hands: Two or three columns, and many a stone, Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown! | author = Byron | work = Siege of Corinth. | place = St. 18. | note = | topic = Ruin | page = 686 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 23 | text = While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away. | author = Earl of Carlisle | work = On the Ruins of Pœstum. | place = | note = | seealso = Same idea in {{sc|Pope}}'s Messiah. | topic = Ruin | page = 686 }}