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, knowing,... Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions - Página 426por Edward Everett - 1836 - 637 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Bell - 1794 - 574 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1708 - 586 páginas
...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. The eleilor of Saxony, on being concordingly effected by the revolution, of fluted refpefting a meafure,... | |
| 1806 - 422 páginas
...and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the longaimed blow, And crush the 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 - 1807 - 498 páginas
...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...elate Sits Empress crowning good, repressing ill; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all dazzling Crown... | |
| Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 páginas
...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...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 páginas
...and brambles rude : Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain : Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant,...:— 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 - 1809 - 302 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1814 - 258 páginas
...rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their dutia know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the 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 páginas
...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...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion * like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown... | |
| William Jones - 1818 - 312 páginas
...maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd hlow, And crnsh the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitnte a state, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and glohes elate Sits empress, crowniag good, repressing 111 : Smit hy her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion,... | |
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