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" 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 human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band,... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ... - Page 442
by James Boswell - 1833
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1822 - 578 pages
...those " nobler aims," of which he speaks, or with that country where he sees The lords of human kind pass by. Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant learns these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man...
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 550 pages
...year. — Pub. • I see the lords of human kind pass by, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye ; Intent on high designs ; a thoughtful band, By forms...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul ; True to imagin'd right ; above control ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...during aims irregularly great: Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...your modern poets. I see the lords of human kind pass by, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye ; Intent on high designs ; a thoughtful band, By forms...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul ; True to iinagin'd right; above control; While e'en the peasant boasts those rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...daring aims irregularly great: Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, dehance in their eye, I see the lords of human-kind pass by...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashionM, fresh from Nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardinecs of soul, True to imagin'd right,...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...there 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...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...there 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...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control ; While e'en the peasant boaststhese rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man. Thine, Freedom,...
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ..., Volume 6

English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...arms irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, 1 see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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