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 unfashion'd fresh from Nature's... Child's Magazine - Page 381816Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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...soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While ev'n the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.' We Oct. 23.]... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...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...soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, Freedom,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 202 pages
...great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent OB high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd,...soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, Freedom,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...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 unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand ; 3 5^ Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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...these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand, H For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil ; And... | |
| Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1804 - 416 pages
...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...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul ; \\hile e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Corry - London (England) - 1804 - 230 pages
...characterised this description of Englishmen in the following lines :— ———-A thoughtful band, By fonns unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand ! Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to iougin'd right — aboye controul. While e'en the peasant boasts those rights to scan, And learns to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...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...these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine,Frcedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear... | |
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