In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; 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,... Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ... - Page 38by John Bell - 1794Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...MEN, high-minded MEN, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their...their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Tbefe conftitute a ftate, And fov'reign... | |
| John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 478 pages
...MEN, high minded MEN, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their...knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aim'd blow, And crufli the tyrant while they rend the chain: fbefe conflitute a State; And fov'reign LAW, tbatjlatt's... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1793 - 740 pages
...MEW, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued 111 foreft, brake, or den, As beads excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; MEN who their...know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.— If the prefent practice deviates from the principles of the Conftitution, he had furely a good light... | |
| Art - 1708 - 586 pages
...MEN, HIGH-MINDED MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, orden, As beafts excel cold rocks' and brambles rude : MEN, WHO THEIR...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. The eleilor... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1798 - 458 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain} Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign law, that State's collected will, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1799 - 468 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant, while they rend the chain: Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...MEN, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafls excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their...their RIGHTS, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Thefe conllitute a flate, And fovereign... | |
| Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...spangled courts, Where lowbrowed baseness wafts perfume to pride j No ; MEN, highminded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes, endued In forest, brake,...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... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, nnd, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-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 good,... | |
| 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, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign... | |
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