| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 564 páginas
...Creation's mildest eharms are there eombin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stem o'er eaeh bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defianee in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ;* Intent on high designs, a thoughtful... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 páginas
...other people in the world would sink, they have often showed they were capable of enduring ; if 1 " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great," &c. See The TraveUer, i. 17. accidentally cast upon some desolate coast, their perseverance is beyond... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 516 páginas
...certain numher of years." — Mitford. There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are...daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, deiiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 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...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human-kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unlashion'd, fresh from Nature's... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray; Creation's mildest charms arc there combined, Extremes are only in the master's...Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see ihe lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band. By forms nnliisljion d... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 páginas
...the solid worth of self-applause.' ftn -of thus passed through Holland, he arrives at England— ' Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state. With...defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pats by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd fresh from Nature's hand.'... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. Line 327. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by. Line 356. The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms. Line 372. For just experience tells, in every... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 392 páginas
...— for she was indeed a Lioness — worthy to rule over that race of whom another poet has said, " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by." Shepherd. Ton's no the roar o' a cooard, sirs, when he puts his dreadfu' mooth... | |
| Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 páginas
...122. Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth—his hall the azure dome. 123. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind go by. 124. She earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and packet light.... | |
| Amelia E. Barr - 1913 - 566 páginas
...the sorrowful past, and counted the present as its compensation. CHAPTER XIV THE BEGINNING OP STRIFE "Pride in their port, Defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by." I HAD written home many times since we left Memphis, and had fully described all... | |
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