 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pagine
...CHARACTER. (From Goldsmith's Traveller.) Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms uiifashion'd, fresh from nature's band, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pagine
...combin'd, Extremes are only on the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagm'd right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pagine
...combin'd, Extremes are only on the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unftshion'd fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagm'd right,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pagine
...Extremes are only in the 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 the lords of human-kind pass by , Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned fresh from nature's... | |
 | 1822 - 578 pagine
...when it was prompted by those " nobler aims," of which he speaks, or with that country where he sees The lords of human kind pass by. Intent on high designs,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant learns these rights to scan, And learns to... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pagine
...when it was prompted by those " nobler airas," of which he speaks, or with that country where he sees The lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant learns these rights to scan, And learns to... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pagine
...religion, are permanent and fixed : — Stern o'er each bosom., reason holds her state, With daring aims, irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms umashion d, fresh from nature's hand : Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right,... | |
 | 1915 - 632 pagine
...at the head of the government. Goldsmith describes the bearing of the Englishman of his day : — ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by.' Michelet found in England 'human pride personified in a people,' at a time when the characteristic... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagine
...Extremes are only in the 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 the lords of humankind pass by , Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pagine
...combined, Extremes are only in the 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 the lords of humankind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
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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... 
