 In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; No more shall freedom smile ! Shall Britons languish, and be men no more! Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards which decorate the  Loyal Reformers' Gazette - Page 1701831Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...baseness wafts perfume to pride . No :—MEN, high minded MEN, With pow'rs 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, dare maintain; These constitute... | |
 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ; MEN, highminded 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, dare maintain, Prevent the longaimed... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore! No more shall Freedom smile ? Shall Britons languish...life resign, Those sweet rewards, which decorate the brave, 'Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. THE PALACE OF FORTUNE, AN INDIAN... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...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, DARK MAINTAIN', Prevent the long-aim'd... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...dull brutes endu a Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men who their duties know, But know their rights, atid, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd... | |
 | Great Britain - 1817 - 694 pages
...opinions at that moment: “ Such was this heav'n-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer, and the Cretan shore! No more shall Freedom smile? Shall Britons languish, and be men no more ?“ Some little time anterior to this indeed, he had re-strung his lyre on a very tern¿)tIng occasion.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...baseness wafts perfume to pride. No :—men, high-minded men, With pow'rs 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, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1821 - 494 pages
...dull brutes endued, Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to 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, 3Jut know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long aim'd... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - Canada - 1824 - 530 pages
...Message¿ 1822. •- Wp.s,'isea, high aiwded swn, • With powers as far above dull brutes endued - . In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude,..-. • - - Men, whe their dstka know, - - But know their ,ighl, and knowing dare m¿4uti¿in; Prevent... | |
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