 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, knowing,...  Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ... - Էջ 1371826Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1817 - 630 էջ
...spangl'd courts, Where low-brow'd Baseness wafts perfume to Pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know; but know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of his political opinions at that moment : " Such tuas this heav'n-lov'd... | |
 | 1817 - 630 էջ
...spangl'd courts, Where low-brow'd Baseness wafts perfume to Pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know; but know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of his political opinions at that moment : " Such ivas this heav'n-lov'd... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 էջ
...starr'd and spangled courts, [pride. Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to NO : — Men, high minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In...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... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 էջ
...baseness wafts perfume to pride — * President's Message, 1822. No— --men, high minded men, • j J .-! With powers as far above dull brutes endued ^ In forest,...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude,— Men, wh* their duties know, But know- their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long aim'd blow,... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 532 էջ
...brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride — * President's Message, 1822. No— men, high minded men, Wjtb powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude,— Men, who iheir duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long aim'd blow,... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott, William Yates - 1824 - 560 էջ
...before that which essentially constitutes a state will be found ; L e. — " Men, high-minded men — Men who their duties know; But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain." Hitherto a strong feeling of resentment against past tyranny, on the part of Spain, has urged them... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 էջ
...and spangled court*. Where low-bowed baseness \vafls perfume tt» pride' No! men! high-minded men! Men who their duties know; But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant when they burst the chain— These constitute a State/' These... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 էջ
...starred and spangled courts, Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 էջ
...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd . No : men, high-minded men ; Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State.' In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 էջ
...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No : men, high-minded men ; Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State.' In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican... | |
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