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" 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... "
The Life, Speeches, and Memorials of Daniel Webster - Page 283
by Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1859 - 548 pages
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The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive ..., Volume 3

John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 328 pages
...crowning good, repreffing ill ; Smit by her facred frown, The fiend Diferetioa like a vapour finks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding fbrinks. Such was this heav'n-lov'd ifle, Than Lefbos fairer and the Cretan fhore ! No more fliall...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ..., Volumes 16-18

John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...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...Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...crowning good, repreffing ill ; Smit by her facred frown, The fiend OPPRESSION, like a vapour finks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding fbrinks. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. . rrH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The...
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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on ..., Volume 2

Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...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, crowning good, repressing ill 5 Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the alldazzling crown...
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Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 3

Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...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...Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such...
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Rebellion in Bath: or, The battle of the upper-rooms: an heroico ..., Volume 280

Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...F— Ic— n~ rot Bath. Cooke: Oxford. L These constitute a state : And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits...by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks ; Such...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 3

Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...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 good, repressing ill. Sim't by her sacred frown, The fiend oppression, like a tapour sinks. And e'en- the all-dazzling crown...
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The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...crush the tyrant 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...by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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...by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion * like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...crush the tyrant 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...Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such...
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