 Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and...  Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 5edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; I Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain: These constitute a State; And SOVHIEION LAW, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sit* empress, crowning good,... | |
 | 1827 - 552 pages
...interest, so well described by one who was an honor to the age — •- And sovereign Law, the world's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits...good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, The fi 'nd, Discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 pages
...crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; 252 INTELLIGENCE OP THE PEOPLt. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. We may be told that this is a vision ofa perfect commonwealth ; and so it is :— still the hopes of... | |
 | 1827 - 542 pages
...interest, so well described by one who was an honor to the age — '" Ami sovereign Law, the world's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits...crowning; good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, Thefi -nd, Discretion, like a vapor, sinks, Ami e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 pages
...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...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. We may be told that this is a vision of a perfect commonwealth ; and so it is : — still the hopes... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 pages
...crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state , INTELLIGENCE OF TBB PEOPLE. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. We may be told that this is a vision of a perfect commonwealth ; and so it is : — still the hopes... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...their duties know ; But know their rights, — and knowing, dare maintain : Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain....repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Dissention, like a vapour, sinks : And e'en th' all-dazzling crown I lie leu his faint rays, and at... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...portrayed by Sir William Jones, in his splendid vision of a perfect state. " And sovereign law the world's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits...Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown, Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks." The... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...who their duties know ; But know their rights,— and knowing, dare maintain: Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain....repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Dissension, like a vapour, sinks : And e'en th' all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her... | |
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