 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1915 - 636 pages
...at the head of the government. Goldsmith describes the bearing of the Englishman of his day : — ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by.' Michelet found in England 'human pride personified in a people,' at a time when the characteristic... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1891 - 736 pages
...of every one, but the saying of none. They all maintain a proud silence. None of them will complain. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, but there is no doubt that the conquest and rule of that vast land have tended to enhance that feeling... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...character of the British nation, which he did with such energy, that the tear started into his eye: Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. . . ." (V-345) Johnson's romantic nationalism in the Tour, like Goldsmith's poem,... | |
 | George Caspar Homans - Social Science - 1984 - 390 pages
...one could have written of them as Goldsmith did of the British aristocracy of the eighteenth century: Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.7 They were not aristocrats but merchants and professional men: Marxists would call... | |
 | James D. Tracy - Business & Economics - 1997 - 518 pages
...death, what peril, tempest, cruel woe, Dost thou decree that he must undergo! — Luis Vaz de Camoens Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by. -—Oliver Goldsmith Where is the flag of England? Go East, North, South or West; Wherever there's... | |
 | Nehgs - 1995 - 498 pages
...complimentary terms of his countrymen, can be said of the men of Massachusetts of past generations : — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control. The love of local... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...the solid worth of self-applause." Having then passed through Holland, he arrives in England, where, 'Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims, irregularly great, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, Intent on high designs,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 1702 The Traveller Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by. 1703 The Vicar ofWakefield I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a... | |
 | Thomas A. Brady - History - 1998 - 528 pages
...death, what peril, tempest, cruel woe, Dost thou decree that he must undergo! —Luis Vaz de Camoens Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by. — Oliver Goldsmith Where is the flag of England? Go East, North, South or West; Wherever there's... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. 4174 4191 The Traveller our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches. 1 1019 The 4192 The Traveller Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 4193 The Traveller How small, of... | |
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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 humankind pass by... 
