Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Heir
Mated with a squalid savage
What to me were sun or clime?
I the heir of all the ages
In the foremost files of time.
Tennyson.—Locksley Hall, Verse 89.
I the heir of all the globes and sceptres mankind bows to.
Massinger.—Duke of Florence, Act I. Scene 1.