 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 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 qontrol, While e'en the peasant boasts these right* to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...Stem o'er each bosom reason holde her state With daring aims irrejularly 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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,...soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, Freedom,... | |
 | William Smyth - 1841 - 522 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 hy ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful hand By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand, Fierce... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 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 e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 414 pages
...spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring. ****** Pride in their port, de&ance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs." , GOLDSMITH. \\ ITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought to enter London, after a... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1920 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1923 - 286 pages
...achievement, England at the time was in the enjoyment of one of her fits of self-esteem. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, said Goldsmith (not satirically); and they were proud even of the portrait. " Your Scot" was the butt... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1924 - 262 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.... | |
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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... 
