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 Monthly magazine, Volume 5 - Page 2031708 - 552 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know 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 LAW, that state's cotttSed'will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the longaimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute a. stare, And sovereign LAW, that state's collected -will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress,... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...business wafts perfume to pride. No! — Men, high-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know, But know their rights,...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress crowning... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...With powers as far above dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, nnd, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress crowning... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know 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 sovereign LAW, t fiat state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endu'd, • In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rock, and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But...while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign LA.W, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...Men, who their dutia know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute « state . .jm, ... SHED FO8 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR JOHN PARK, BY MUNROE, FRANCIS AND PARKER, NO.... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the 1'ong-aim'd 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 and globes elate Sits empress, crowning... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...high-minded men, i 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...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sov'reign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-bred baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, Men who their duties know. But know their rights,...while they rend the chain. These constitute a state CHAP. XLI. RELIGION AND VIRTUE. When mild Religion, from above, Descends, a sweet engaging forni, The... | |
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