Where low-browed 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... Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 5edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant, while- they rend the chain : These constitute a State ; And sov'reign LAW, that state's cotttSed'will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good,... | |
| Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...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,...tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute a. stare, And sovereign LAW, that state's collected -will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress,... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, nnd, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this... | |
| Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...University, on Saturday, Nov. 5, 180e, by the rev. Thomas F— Ic— n~ rot Bath. Cooke: Oxford. L These constitute a state : And sovereign law, that...sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks ; Such was... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...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,...:— These constitute a state, And sovereign LAW, t fiat state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign LA.W, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good,... | |
| United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...endued In forest brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their dutia know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,...tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute « state . .jm, ... SHED FO8 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR JOHN PARK, BY MUNROE, FRANCIS AND PARKER, NO.... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the 1'ong-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...sacred frown, The fiend Discretion * like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sov'reign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good,... | |
| William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant whilst they rend the chain. These constitute a state —...thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, suppressing ill. CHAPTER V. THK LAWS. THE laws of the United States are, generally speaking, the same... | |
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