 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...every spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...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, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ;' Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from Nature's... | |
 | William Smyth - 1854 - 554 pages
...only a character, but, as he conceived, a most honourable character, of the English nation : — Stem o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pages
...superior knowledge and wisdom, calm resignation, and unbounded benevolence." Saturday, Oct. 23. — After a good night's rest, we breakfasted at our leisure....hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True in imagined right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...superior knowledge and wisdom, calm resignation, and unbounded benevolence." Saturday, Oct. 23. — After a good night's rest, we breakfasted at our leisure....band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand ; circle backward at every response, now wheeled the circle entire, and turned his back on the landscape,... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...every spray; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state; With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kinds pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 168 pages
...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, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms uufashion'd, fresh from Nature's... | |
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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... 
