 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 pages
...of the British nation, which he did with such energy, that the tear started into his eye : — G 3 " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...of the British nation, which he did with such energy, that the tear started into his eye: — G 3 " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pages
...it) Intent on high designe, a thoughtful tend, By forms imfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand, Pierce in their native hardiness of 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,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 pages
...yet accurate in modern poetry, which gives so high and not undue picture of our countrymen : — " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...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." A comparison... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...every spray - r Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With...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 - 1837 - 582 pages
...the solid worth of self-applause.' " Having thus passed through Holland, he arrives at England — ' Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state With...band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand.' " With the inconveniences that harass the sons of freedom, this extract shall be concluded — ' That... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...sword in defence of freedom ! " — Introduction to History of the Seven Years' Vfu. See vol. ip 468.] Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ;C) Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...was warm and constant, and he is said to have wept while repeating the noble lines upon England. " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1915 - 636 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 736 pages
...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, but there is no doubt that the conquest and rule of that vast land have tended to enhance that feeling... | |
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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... 
