 WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?" An Ode in Imitation of Alcaus WHAT constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound. Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and...  Records of Noble Lives - Page 108by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 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...above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - Classical education - 1836 - 234 pages
...Thick wall or moated gate, Nor cities proud with spires and turrets crowned : Not bays and broad armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pridf. No, men, high minded men,— Men, who their duties know,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...wafts perfume to pride Not hays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; NO:—Men, high-minded men, With powers as far ahove dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Noah Porter - Farmington (Conn.) - 1841 - 116 pages
...battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ; — men, high-minded men." Let those \vhodespair of... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spansled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: Men, hish-minded Men, With powers... | |
 | 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
...laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm,...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,... | |
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