 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 648 pages
...country, where, 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 unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 630 pages
...country, where,.. ; 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 unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controoL While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan. And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | William Carpenter - English newspapers - 1831 - 590 pages
...POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Slew o'er each bosom Reason holds her stale, With daring aim.' irregularly great: Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms *infashion'd. fresh from Nature's hand : Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'H... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I sec the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I sec the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasU these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom. reason holds lier sta' I With daring aims, irregularly great; ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; 2 Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band By forms unfashion'd ; fresh ïrom nature hand ; Fierce... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...started into his eye: " Stem o'er each bosom reason holds her stile, 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1834 - 536 pages
...majestic pomp of precedency, as to challenge tears from Dr. Johnson, whensoever he read the lines " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." Contrasting the mighty object thus insulted with the trivial insulter, (a blue-stocking manufacturer... | |
 | 1834 - 508 pages
...Queen — for she was indeed a Lioness, worthy to rule over that race, of whom another poet has said, " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see, the lords of human kind pass by." Shepherd. — Yon's no the roar o' a cooard, sirs, when he puts his dreadful mooth to the grun', and... | |
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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... 
