 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...1756, that Oliver Goldsmith stepped upon the shore at Dover, and stood again among his countrymen. Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their jxirt, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ! The comfort of seeing it must... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...streams than famed Ilydnspes glide, There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray; Creation's mildest charms are...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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...streams than famed Hydaspes glide, There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, n thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...which ho did with such energy, that the tear started into his eye : " Stern o'er each bosom Keason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I gee the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned,... | |
 | Henry Giles - English literature - 1851 - 306 pages
...description of the English be considered true or false, none can deny the force of its expression : " Stern o'er each bosom, reason holds her state. With daring aims irregularly great j Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...Paradise Lost," book iii. l. 181. There, all around, the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are...mind. Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, 32! With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1853 - 648 pages
...ninety years ago Goldsaiti wrote in his " Traveller " these lines, as an eulopaa upon Englishmen : " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pa*s by." Would that be considered complimentary to any cl»s= of Englishmen in the present day ? Who... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...streams than famed Hydnspes glide, There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...streams than famed Hydaspes glide : 320 There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are...great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, 327 I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd,... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1854 - 494 pages
...— for she was indeed a Lioness — worthy to rule over that race, of whom another poet has said, " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." 4 Shepherd. Yon's no the roar o' a cooard, sirs, when he puts his dreadfu' mooth to the grun', and... | |
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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 humankind pass by... 
