 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pages
...hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man '." ' [Miss Reynolds, in her Recollections, says that Johnson told her that he had written these lines... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...nature's hand; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns...but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim delur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie. I and Joseph rode with halters. We crossed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...nature's hand; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While even t R ; WES appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie. I and Joseph rode with halters. We crossed in a ferry-boat... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...passages from Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man." The celebrated Dr. Johnson once quoted these lines, with so much personal feeling and interest, that... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man." A comparison between his description of Italy and that of Addison occurs immediately to the poetical... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictured here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear; Too... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control — While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man." The poem. was revised by Johnson, who added eight lines of the conclusion, in which the leading proposition... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 pages
...hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man." A comparison between his description of Italy and that of Addison occurs immediately to the poetical... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 pages
...hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man." A comparison between his description of Italy and that of Addison occurs immediately to the poetical... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul,(2) True to imagin'd right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.(3) Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear... | |
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... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms... 
