 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...character of the British nation, which he did with such energy, that the tear started into his eye : — 'Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...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.]... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd. Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er...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
...breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd. Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er...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
...gentlestireezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd. Extremes are only in the master's mind. Stern o'er...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
...breezes stray, There gentle music melts on ev'ry spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; •' Stern...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...there combin'it.... Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds hef state, ~~" With daring aims irregularly great; Pride...' 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...breezes stray, There gentle musick melts on every spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combined ; Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er...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... | |
 | 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...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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...breezes stray, There gentle music melts on ev'ry spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er...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,... | |
 | 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...eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent OB high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's hand. Fierce in their... | |
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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... 
