 | William Smyth - 1841 - 522 pagina’s
...a most honorable character, of the English nation : " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their...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 - 446 pagina’s
...there 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...band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, — While e'en the... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 414 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...men of England used to draw tears from Dr Johnson :— Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, no more, Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze,...all a-flamc, The day was well nigh done, Almost up unfashioned, fresh from nature's hand. Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pagina’s
...BOOK V. CHAPTEE I. . " My genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs." — GOLDSMITH. WITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought to enter London, after a... | |
 | 1891 - 874 pagina’s
...of every one, but the saying of none. They all maintain a proud silence. None of them will complain. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, was written of the English long before their conquest of India; but there is no doubt that the conquest... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pagina’s
...only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims iirepulnrly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh f~on nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 106 pagina’s
...mildest charms are there combin'd: Extremes are only in the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, 325 With daring aims irregularly...soul, True to imagin'd right, above control; While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Too blest, indeed,... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pagina’s
...combin 'd : Extremes are only in the master's mind! 325 Stern o'er each bosom. reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their...pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, 330 By forms unfashion'd, fresh from' Nature 's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1920 - 300 pagina’s
...champion 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... | |
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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... 
