 Where low-browed 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,...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 1701854Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...wafts perfume to pride Not hays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; NO:—Men, high-minded men, With powers as far ahove dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know,... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...and spangled courts ow-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of hii political opinions at that moment : — ' Such wu thii... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - 1838 - 222 pages
...recognise them as their peers and equals ; for, as I stated, they were, in the language of the poet, •" Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain : " — and therefore, fondly trusted, that the voice which proclaimed this sentiment to the world... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pages
...wails perfume to pride. — No! — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain, — These constitute a state; And... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake,...their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...starred and spansled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: Men, hish-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued,...long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No ! Men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State I" • But this has merit only as a fine sentiment happily expressed. It is,... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pages
...Thick wall, or moated gate : Not cities fair with spires and turrets crown'd. No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued...rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, Know too their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.' In shatter'd tempest — beaten bark, With labouring... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1843 - 48 pages
...starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. These constitute a State, And Sovereign Law that State's collected will. Men constitute a State, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...starred and spangled courts, U'here low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded fiat know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crash the tyrant... | |
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