 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...See vol. ip 468.] 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 ;(l) Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...one of his flatterers has drawn of him in lines as striking as, in his opinion, they are correct— "Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by"— would only suspect that he is not altogether an impeccable personage, it would doubtless be better... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...tepor alit. — In tantd deris inditlgentid Britannicus agcr omnis generis semina facile concepit.' — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, &c. ' Jam spontanea felicitas securum et opulentium vulgus non modico tnmore sustollit, nt neque pro... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...one of his flatterers has drawn of him in lines as striking as, in his opinion, they are correct— " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by"— would only suspect that he is not altogether an impeccable personage, it would doubtless be better... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 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... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 728 pages
...alit. — In tantd tieris indulgentid firitaunicus ager omnis generis semina facile concepit.' — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human 1iind pass by, &c. 'Jam spontanea felicitas securum et opulentium vulgus non modico tnmore sustollit,... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...upon England. " 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 unfashioned, fresh from Nature's... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...— which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, de6ance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." painting or expression, their previous use being probably forgotten. Thus the beautiful and affecting... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Fiction - 1838 - 224 pages
...CHAPTER I. " My genius spreads her win g, Anu flies where Britain courts the western spring. ****** Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs." GOLDSMITH. WITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought to enter London, after a prolonged... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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...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... | |
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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... 
