 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,...  The Elements of Reading and Oratory - Pagina 349door Henry Mandeville - 1888 - 356 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Southey - 1807
...business wafts perfume to pride. No! — Men, high-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued 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 sovereign... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807
...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 : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress crowning... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1808
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No: — MEN, high minded, MEN, With powers, as far above dull brutes endued, In forest,...they rend the chain :— These constitute a state, And sovereign LAW, t fiat state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808
...spangled courts, Where, lo\v-bro\v'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...THEIR DUTIES KNOW, BUT KNOW THEIR RIGHTS, AND KNOWING, DARK MAINTAIN', Prevent the long-aim'd bknr, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : • *... | |
 | 1808
...spangled courts " Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride ! " No; MEN! high-minded MEN, " With powers as far above dull brutes endued " In forest, brake, or den, " As beast excel cold rocks and brambles, rude ; " MEN who their duties know, " But know their rights, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1809
...With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endu'd, • In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rock, and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But...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... | |
 | 1814
...starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride No ; Men, high-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes, endued In forest...excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their dutia know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816
...baseness wafts perfume to pride. No — MEN, high-minded ME», With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the 1'ong-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And Sovereign... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817
...starr'd and spangled courts. Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride: No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, . Asbca-ls excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; ,,V'- . Men who their duties know, But know their rights,... | |
 | 1817
...spangl'd courts, Where low-brow'd Baseness wafts perfume to Pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know; but know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of his political opinions at that moment : " Such ivas this heav'n-lov'd... | |
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