 ... 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 - Page 385by Robert Southey - 1807Full view - About this book
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...key lines from the poem may be significant in that regard. In particular Jones's original declared, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush...while they rend the chain: These constitute a State, Andsov 'reign LAW, that State 's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
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