 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...not undue picture of our countrymen:— " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...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...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, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...through Holland, he arrives at England — ' Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance...band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand.' " With the inconveniences that harass the sons of freedom, this extract >hall be concluded — ' That... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...port, defiance in their eye:"— which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...tepor alit. — In tantd deris inditlgentid Britannicus agcr omnis generis semina facile concepit.' — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, &c. ' Jam spontanea felicitas securum et opulentium vulgus non modico tnmore sustollit, nt neque pro... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 536 pages
...one of his flatterers has drawn of him in lines as striking as, in his opinion, they are correct— "Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by"— would only suspect that he is not altogether an impeccable personage, it would doubtless be better... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...port, defiance in their eye :" — which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...one of his flatterers has drawn of him in lines as striking as, in his opinion, they are correct— " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by"— would only suspect that he is not altogether an impeccable personage, it would doubtless be better... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...port, defiance in their eye : "— which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...port, defiance in their eye :" — which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought... | |
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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... 
