 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 106 páginas
...breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd: Extremes are only in the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, 325 With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1920 - 300 páginas
...champion at the head of the government. Goldsmith describes the bearing of the Englishman of his day : — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by. Michelet found in England ' human pride personified in a people,' at a time when the characteristic... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1920 - 268 páginas
...and of the bad ones by which we are chiefly distinguished. We may glory in them with Goldsmith : ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.1 We may be pleased by the saying of Goethe, that an Englishman has always a certain... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...verborgner Stolz. Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. GOETHE — Iphigenia auf Tauris. IV. 4. 120. 13 ond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this sec humankind pass by. GOLDSMITH— The Trailer. L. 327. (See also DRYDEN) Oh! Why should the spirit of... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1923 - 286 páginas
...and military achievement, England at the time was in the enjoyment of one of her fits of self-esteem. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, said Goldsmith (not satirically); and they were proud even of the portrait. " Your Scot" was the butt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 páginas
...character of the British nation, which he did with such energy, that the tear started into his eye : ' Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, ' With...port, defiance in their eye, ' I see the lords of humankind pass by, ' Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, ' By forms unfashion d, fresh from... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1925 - 336 páginas
...closely allied with selfishness, that gave strength to the Englishman of the Eighteenth Century. " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind go by." We have too few men of this description. Then again what Goldsmith also saw — party spirit... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 páginas
...Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned fresh from nature's... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 páginas
...streams than famed Hydaspis glide. 320 There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray; Creation's mildest charms are...are only in the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom Eeason holds her state. 325 With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 páginas
...a case in point. Goldsmith knows the value of echoed sound and of full open vowels in a sequence : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by. He is at his best when his language is not only harmonious but simple and plain. It is not always simple... | |
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Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by... 
