 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 str.
...germ of that beautiful sketch which the Poet has drawn of the national character in the Traveller— " Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great/' dec.] Foreigners are generally shocked at their insolence upon first coming among them: they find themselves... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 str.
...breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd fresh from nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 str.
...spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stem o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring...their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd fresh from nature's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 str.
...streams than famed Hydaspes glide ; There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music 6, ! Stem o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port,... | |
 | William Smyth - 1841 - 518 str.
...giving not only a character, but, as he conceived, a most honorable character, of the English nation : " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With...defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass hy ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful hand By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand, Fierce... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 str.
...streams than famed Hydaspes glide; There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are...there combined, Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stem o'er each bosom reason holde her state With daring aims irrejularly great ; Pride in their port,... | |
 | 1891 - 874 str.
...of every one, but the saying of none. They all maintain a proud silence. None of them will complain. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, was written of the English long before their conquest of India; but there is no doubt that the conquest... | |
 | 1872 - 862 str.
...that mark the leaders of mankind." This recalls the fine lines of Goldsmith, beginning : " Pride iu their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." Have they in any respect degenerated since then ? Тнв HEAT-SPECTRA OF твк 8пн AND LIMELIGHT.... | |
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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 humankind pass by... 
