| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eyt, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on...native hardiness of 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.... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unftshion'd fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagm'd right,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom, reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human-kind pass by , Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned fresh from nature's... | |
| 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... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 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... | |
| Timothy Dwight - New England - 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...hardiness of 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.... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...and fixed : — Stern o'er each bosom., reason holds her state, With daring aims, irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...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,... | |
| English literature - 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... | |
| Timothy Dwight - New England - 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 of 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.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in 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... | |
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