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" With 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, By forms... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ... - Page 86
by James Boswell - 1835
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 546 pages
...character of the Englifh nation, which he did with fuch energy, that the tear ftarted into his eye. We could get but one bridle here, which, according...the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnfon's fheltie. I and Jofeph rode with halters. We erofled in a ferryboat a pretty wide lake, and...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...character of the Englifh nation, which he did with fuch energy, that the tear ftarted into his eye. We could get but one bridle here, which, according...the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnfon's fheltie. I and Jofeph rode with halters. We crofled in a ferry-boat a pretty wide lake, and...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Hebrides - 1786 - 478 pages
...right, above control, While ev'n the peafant boafts thefe rights to fcan, And learns to venerate himfelf as man." We could get but one bridle here, which,...the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnfon's fhehie. I and Jofeph rode with halters. We crofled in a ferry-boat a pretty wide lake, and...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...hand ; Fierce in their 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.' We Oct. 23.] Pope and Cowley compared. 393 We could get but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ...

John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 202 pages
...from Nature's hand ; 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 himself as man. Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear ;...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...hand, Fierce in their 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. Thine, freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear; Too...
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Letters from France, in 1802, Volume 2

Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1804 - 416 pages
...hand, Fierce in their native 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 of the Agricultural Society are well aware of the many difficulties which they have to...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...hand ; 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 himself as man. Thine, freedom, thine the blessings pictured here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear ;...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...nature's hand. Fierce in their 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. Thine,Frcedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear ; Too...
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The Stranger; Or, the New Man of Feeling. [The Dedication Signed: J. C*********.

J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...forms unfashion'd fresh from Nature's hand. Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts...rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. GOLDSMITH. The artless villager will ever remember the happy day in which Corvinus conducted his lovely...
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