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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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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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 controoL While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan. And learns to venerate...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I sec the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs,...rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man '." ' [Miss Reynolds, in her Recollections, says that Johnson told her that he had written these lines...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I sec the lords of humankind pass by, Intent on high designs,...imagined right, above control, While even the peasant boasU these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man '." We could get but one bridle here,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...energy, that the tear started into his eye: — G 3 " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their...native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man."...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 374 pages
...energy, that the tear started into his eye : — G 3 " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their...native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man."...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 1

1837 - 646 pages
...wept while repeating the noble lines upon England. " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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,...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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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 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...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imag'm'd right, above controul ; While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to sc:m, And learn to venerate...
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The life of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 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 e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original ..., Volume 2

Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 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 e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate...
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