 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...Men. who their dutit* know, But know their righti, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-ainrd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrink*. Such... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 pages
...the present year. In forest, brake, or den, As brutes excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing,...they rend the chain — These constitute a State." Or with the more subtle thoughts of our own Simias, of South Carolina, who wrote — " The moral of... | |
 | Nahum Gale - 1857 - 364 pages
...men, high-minded men. Hen, who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing, dare Quintain; These constitute a State. And sovereign Law, that...collected will, , . ; , , O'er thrones and globes elate, Bite empress : —crowning good ; — repairing 111. Bra WILLIAM Joni. BEFORE we proceed to follow... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...dull brutes indued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, But know their rights ; and knowing,...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. CXIII.—... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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,...state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Site empress, crowning good, repressing 111; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 498 pages
...dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or deu, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing,...blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain. With the following brief passages, the first from -$lsop, the celebrated Fabulist, and the others from... | |
 | Henry Green - 1858 - 170 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 Sovereign-Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...Men. who their dvlies know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, PreTent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en th' all-da/zling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 pages
...the present year. In forest, brake, or den, As brutes excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing,...they rend the chain — These constitute a State" Or with the more subtle thoughts of our own Simms; of South Carolina, who wrote — " The moral of... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1859 - 662 pages
...interest, so well described hy one who was an honor to the age : " And sovereign Law, the vrarlcFi 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... | |
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