...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...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined...

...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 controoL While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan. And learns to venerate himself as man....

...daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I sec the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...

...daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I sec the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasU these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...

...Slew o'er each bosom Reason holds her stale, With daring aim.' irregularly great: Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms *infashion'd. fresh from Nature's hand : Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'H...

...o'er each bosom. reason holds lier sta' I With daring aims, irregularly great; ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; 2 Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band By forms unfashion'd ; fresh ïrom nature hand ; Fierce...

...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,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...

...precedency, as to challenge tears from Dr. Johnson, whensoever he read the lines " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." Contrasting the mighty object thus insulted with the trivial insulter, (a blue-stocking manufacturer...

...indeed a Lioness, worthy to rule over that race, of whom another poet has said, " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see, the lords of human kind pass by." Shepherd. — Yon's no the roar o' a cooard, sirs, when he puts his dreadful mooth to the grun', and...

...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,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...