 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 pages
...choose, CHARTER J. "My genius spreads her WHIR , And flies where Britain courts the western spring Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, lntenl on high designs." GOLDSMITH. WITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought lo enter... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...repeating the noble lines upon England. " 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 ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 728 pages
...alit. — In tantd tieris indulgentid firitaunicus ager omnis generis semina facile concepit.' — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human 1iind pass by, &c. 'Jam spontanea felicitas securum et opulentium vulgus non modico tnmore sustollit,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...— which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, de6ance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." painting or expression, their previous use being probably forgotten. Thus the beautiful and affecting... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Fiction - 1838 - 224 pages
...CHAPTER I. " My genius spreads her win g, Anu flies where Britain courts the western spring. ****** Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see...lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs." GOLDSMITH. WITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought to enter London, after a prolonged... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! 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 ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd fresh from nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stem 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 ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd fresh from nature's... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 human kind pass by... 
