 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 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 unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; The foundation of this high national feeling must evidently... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 374 pages
...his eye : — G 3 " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...his eye: — G 3 " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...started into his eye: " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pr humankind pass by. Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1836 - 150 pages
...it) Intent on high designe, a thoughtful tend, By forms imfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand, Pierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, Freedom,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...port, defiance in their eye :" — which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...port, defiance in their eye :" — which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...port, defiance in their eye : "— which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 pages
...choose, CHARTER J. "My genius spreads her WHIR , And flies where Britain courts the western spring Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, lntenl on high designs." GOLDSMITH. WITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought lo enter... | |
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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... 
