| John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...principles of action, like those of their government and their religion, are permanent and fixed : — Stern o'er each bosom., reason holds her state, With...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms umashion d, fresh from nature's hand : Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right,... | |
| 1822 - 578 pages
...when it was prompted by those " nobler aims," of which he speaks, or with that country where he sees The lords of human kind pass by. Intent on high designs,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant learns these rights to scan, And learns to... | |
| 1822 - 734 pages
...when it was prompted by those " nobler airas," of which he speaks, or with that country where he sees The lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant learns these rights to scan, And learns to... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 550 pages
...year. — Pub. • I see the lords of human kind pass by, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye ; Intent on high designs ; a thoughtful band, By forms...soul ; True to imagin'd right ; above control ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, freedom,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by , Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...every spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind; Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 542 pages
...their port, defiance in their eye ; Intent on high designs ; a thoughtful band, By forms unfashionM, fresh from nature's hand; Fierce in their native hardiness...soul ; True to imagin'd right ; above control ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, freedom,... | |
| 1915 - 632 pages
...at the head of the government. Goldsmith describes the bearing of the Englishman of his day : — ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by.' Michelet found in England 'human pride personified in a people,' at a time when the characteristic... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With during aims irregularly great: Pride in their port, defiance...soul, True to imagin'd right, above control; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man." " Dear is that... | |
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