 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
 | George Lunt - 1835 - 28 pages
...Jurisprudence' will still continue to illuminate and bless the world : ' While' " Sovereign Law, the states' collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits...empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor shrinks, And e'en the dazzling crown Hides its faint rays... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 pages
...No! men! high-minded men, Men who their duties know, But know then- rights; — and, knowing, darei Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant,...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.' EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE, DELIVERED IN FANEUIL HALL, AT THE REQUEST OF THE YOUNG MEN OF BOSTON, SEPTEMBER... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfumes to pride.No! men! high-minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights; — and,...while they rend the chain ; — These constitute a slate, And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Siti empress,... | |
 | 1838 - 332 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...State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Site Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred irown The fiend discretion like a... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd p x tbrones and glohes elate Sit< empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit hy her sacred frown The... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that stale's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Site and the innocent. Sit now and answer groan for groan, The child before thee sinke, And e'en 111' all dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...so well described by one who was an honor to the age : " And sovereign Law— the world Vcollected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress...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." LIBERALITY... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 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,...These constitute a state; And sovereign law, that states collected will, High over thrones, and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...long-aira'd blow, And 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...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 was this... | |
 | 1840 - 368 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 sov'reign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good,... | |
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