 ... 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, knowing,...  Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices - Էջ 385Robert Southey - 1807Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 էջ
...And crush the tyrant whilst they rend the chain. These constitute a state— And sovereign law, tliat state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, suppressing ill. I . •••:., > '.,:. ,, [- ••< .: ' ... [. ..'•• '•. ••! -, ...... | |
 | 1826 - 310 էջ
...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...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 էջ
...As beasts excel cold rock and brambles rude: Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 322 էջ
...perfume to pride No — Men, high minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...while they rend the chain. These constitute a state. SIR. w. JOUES. 136. A constitution is that plan of government and system of laws, under which a people... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 էջ
...genius of Sir William Jones, rising into poetical enthusiasm, has proclaimed, that " Sovereign law, the state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." But if we contemplate it in a narrower view, as a mere system of regulations for the safety and harmony... | |
 | 1827 - 542 էջ
...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 - 1827 - 398 էջ
...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 ; 252 INTELLIGENCE OP THE PEOPLt. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 , INTELLIGENCE OF TBB PEOPLE. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes... | |
 | 1833 - 414 էջ
...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. It would be unfair to conclude this article without stating that the Roman names of authors, and other... | |
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