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On the king’s gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father’s stead.
helen hunt jackson— Coronation.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
Bible (Old Testament)— Chronicles 29:28.
The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's headAnd became a Tyrant in his stead.
william blake— Ibid, stanza 9
Under this marble, or under this sill, Or under this turf, or e'en what they will, Whatever an heir, or a friend in his stead, Or any good creature shall lay o'er my head, Lies one who ne'er car'd, and still cares not a pin What they said or may say of the mortal within; But who, living and dying, serene, still and free, Trusts in God that as well as he was he shall be.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Epitaph; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 232.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions .
— Anonymous, in [ Mills & Boon Regency Collection 2012
Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung deftly round her head Fell carelessly behind.
— Terence, Self-Tormentor, Act II, scene 2. F. W. Ricord's translation.
