 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...into his eye : — 'Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While ev'n the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.'... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port. defiance in their eye, I see...band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand ; 3 5^ Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 202 pages
...the master's mind ! 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, Intent OB high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their... | |
 | 1793 - 204 pages
...state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lurds of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right above control ; While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...master's mind ; •' Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds hef state, ~~" With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...' By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand, H For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil ; And... | |
 | Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1804 - 416 pages
...Britain and America. Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul ; \\hile e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. The members... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...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... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1804 - 230 pages
...characterised this description of Englishmen in the following lines :— ———-A thoughtful band, By fonns unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's hand ! Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to iougin'd right — aboye controul. While e'en the peasant boasts those rights to scan, And learns to... | |
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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... 
