 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, With powers as tar above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd haseness ahove dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men,... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Nor starr'd and spangled courts, Where low brow'd baseness wails perfume to pride. — No! — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their duties... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake,...their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No ! Men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State I" • But this has merit only as a fine sentiment happily expressed. It is,... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pages
...battlement, or labour'd mound, Thick wall, or moated gate : Not cities fair with spires and turrets crown'd. No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far...rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, Know too their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.' In shatter'd tempest — beaten bark, With labouring... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Anti-Catholicism - 1843 - 48 pages
...starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. These constitute a State, And Sovereign Law that State's collected will. Men constitute a State, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, U'here low-browed faith !' the hermit said — ' And they answered fiat know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crash the tyrant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed Ӏ foreet, brake, or den, As beast« excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, I!ut... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! — m&n, — high-minded M&N, — , Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. ' Concession and Unequal Antithesis.' Ex. " The clouds of adversity may darken over the Christian's... | |
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Where low.browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high.minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing,... 
