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
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 672 pages
...know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a state,...O'er thrones and globes elate. Sits empress, crowning rood, repressing ill.' Cincinnati, Stpt., Ml. OCTOBER AT 'noun, HIS FERRY. ON TBB HUDSON RIVSK. ' THB»B... | |
| William Peter - 1847 - 568 pages
...brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men, who» their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent...blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain. CONVIVIAL. JOTE descends in sleet and snow, Howls the vexed and angry deep ¡ Every stream forgets... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 pages
...ttpaugled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafu perfumes to pride ; No! m? n I high minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights ; and knowing,...maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a stnte, And sovereign law, that state's collected... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 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...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." But... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...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, knowing,...These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that Slate's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ;... | |
| Edward Everett - 1850 - 708 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...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill" EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE.* PREFATORY NOTE, FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION. To avoid the necessity of frequent... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...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, knowing,...These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that Flute's collected will, JONES. Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown... | |
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...Men, who their duties know, Bat 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: Sum by her sacred frown The fiend, discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all dazzling crown... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...duties know, But know their rights : and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And wash the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ilL XXXrtt MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS.1 Mr mimic to me a kingdome is ; Such perfect joy therein I finde... | |
| William Knight Northall - 1850 - 208 pages
...brambles rude : Men who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, These constitute a State. Though New England cannot boast of rich plantations, and gangs of laborers producing vast crops of... | |
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