| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...'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...native hardiness of 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.'... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...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...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 202 pages
...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 OB high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their... | |
| 1793 - 204 pages
...state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lurds of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right above control ; While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...o'er each bosom Reason holds hef state, ~~" With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind...' 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
...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...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. The members... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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...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... | |
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