 We shall exult, if they who rule the land Be men who hold its many blessings dear, "Wise, upright, valiant; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand.  The Quarterly Review - Page 434edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant; not a venal Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. 152 26. NOTES to the FIRST VOLUME. XOTES. PAGE 1 . — To the Daisy. This PO«B, and two others to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a venal Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour, which they do not understand. WORDSWORTH. JSVf to pave 80. * Anima sapient (says Giordano Bruno, and let the sublime Piety of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a venal Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. 224 x - . ------ - SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. SECOND. VOL. II. ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Men who hold its many blessings dear, AVise, upright, valiant ; not a venal Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. PART SECOND. VOL. II. CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY. A ROHAN Master... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pages
...constitution when there is no danger nigh ; — learning unthinking men, as Wordsworth says, " To speak of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand — " Not recollecting that, in the house of which he is the mouthpiece, there have been, and may be,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. SONNETS DEDIcATED TO LIBERTY. PART SECOND. OX A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT BISTORT. A ROMAN Master... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. ODE. 1. WHO rises on the banks of Seine, binds her temples with the civic wreath ? What joy to read... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. PART II A ROMAN Master stands on Grecian ground, On a CeleAnd to the people at the Isthmian Games brated... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 452 pages
...this mighty kingdom, in these momentous times, should be entrusted to men, as Wordsworth says of them Who talk of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand ! We have been told of the dangers in which Lord Wellington and his army are placed ; . . this too in language which it is... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 442 pages
...this mighty kingdom, in these momentous times, should be entrusted to men, as Wordsworth says of them Who talk of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand I We have been told of the dangers in which Lord Wellington and his army are placed ;. .this too in... | |
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