 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 lehte
...every good judge of poetry and so great a favourite with Dr. Johnson. In the first edition it is — " 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:"— which on further... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 lehte
...every good judge of poetry and so great a favourite with Dr. Johnson. In the first edition it is — " 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 :" — which on further... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 lehte
...that beautiful sketch which the Poet has drawn of the national character in the Traveller— " Stein o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great," &c.] Foreigners are generally shocked at their insolence upon first coming among them: they find themselves... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 lehte
...1756, that Oliver Goldsmith stepped upon the shore at Dover, and stood again among his countrymen. Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state With...irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eve, I see the lords of human kind pass by ! The comfort of seeing it must have been about all the... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 lehte
...1756, that Oliver Goldsmith stepped upon the shore at Dover, and stood again among his countrymen. Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their jxirt, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ! The comfort of seeing it must... | |
 | Henry Giles - 1851 - 306 lehte
...description of the English be considered true or false, none can deny the force of its expression : " Stern o'er each bosom, reason holds her state. With daring aims irregularly great j Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 lehte
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With...great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, 327 I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 lehte
...Creation's mildest eharms are there eombin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stem o'er eaeh bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defianee in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ;* Intent on high designs, a thoughtful... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 lehte
...other people in the world would sink, they have often showed they were capable of enduring ; if 1 " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great," &c. See The TraveUer, i. 17. accidentally cast upon some desolate coast, their perseverance is beyond... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 lehte
...every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combined, 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, deiiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful... | |
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