 | 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,... | |
 | Social sciences - 1965 - 920 pages
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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... 
