... 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 - Страница 385написао/ла Robert Southey - 1807Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 страница
...vices and oppressions of our world, the prophet's dream will be realized, when " Sovereign law, the state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." Secondly, Christianity is most merciful towards those who suffer the greatest abuse. Its immediate... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 страница
...duties know, But know their rights : and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And wash the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ilL XXXrtt MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS.1 Mr mimic to me a kingdome is ; Such perfect joy therein I finde... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 страница
...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, And sovereign Law, that Flute's collected will, JONES. Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown... | |
| William Knight Northall - 1850 - 208 страница
...Men who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, These constitute a State. Though New England cannot boast of rich plantations, and gangs of laborers producing vast crops of... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1850 - 498 страница
...overthrow of the War System, they comprehend the Commonwealth of Nations ; And Sovereign LAW, the world's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. In the name of Religion profaned by War ; of Knowledge misapplied and perverted ; of Freedom crushed... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 640 страница
...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." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 672 страница
...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." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 30 страница
...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,...State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 страница
...state , 3 And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 4 The fiend discretion* like a vapor sinks ; O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress : crowning good ; repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. 5 Such was this heaven-loved... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 582 страница
...power and interest, so well described by one who was an honor to the age ; — " And sovereign Law, the state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, — crowning good, repressing ill: Sa, i by her sacred frown, The fiend, Discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown... | |
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