| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...superior knowledge and wisdom, calm resignation, and unbounded benevolence.' SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23. After a good night's rest, we breakfasted at our leisure....their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd. Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port. defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
| 1793 - 204 pages
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd. Extremes are only in the master's mind. Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lurds of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; •' Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...every spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combined ; Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd fresh from nature's... | |
| Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1804 - 416 pages
...unknown and unseen at present, in the Republic, but the pride and glory of Great Britain and America. Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
| Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...their principles of action, like those of their government and their religion, are permanent and fixed. Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent OB high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...ev'ry spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
| Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...their principles of action, like those of their government and their religion, are permanent and fixed. Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent OH high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's... | |
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