 ... 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,...  Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices - Seite 385von Robert Southey - 1807Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 648 Seiten
...and, knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend ihe chain : These constitute a state; And SOVEREIGN LAW,...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 388 Seiten
...Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a State." 1. Page 26. J. Page 47. 3. PofreSI. 4. The territorial extent of our republic is ten times as large... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 Seiten
...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights: and, knowing, dare maintain. Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...elate. Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ilL X.XXI1I.—MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM 13.' MT minde to me a kingdoms is; Such perfect joy therein I finde... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1919 - 438 Seiten
...who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. • AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS BY WALT WHITMAN As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,... | |
 | 1919 - 168 Seiten
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain....elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. — SIR WILLIAM JONES THE DUTY AND VALUE OF PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM is love of country, and loyalty to... | |
 | Sir Charles Waldstein - 1919 - 260 Seiten
...free people of our own times, Men their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er...elate. Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. (SiR WILLIAM JONES.) But, in the sham-cosmical conception of will in the phrases as used by the Kaiser... | |
 | Jean Broadhurst - 1919 - 382 Seiten
...Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State. ****** SIR WILLIAM JONES (1745-1794). AMERICA TO ENGLAND Mother of nations, of them eldest we, Well... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 502 Seiten
...Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain:...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. There is more than a breath of this temper and style in Wordsworth; but in Shelley's prophecies the... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 544 Seiten
...Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain...state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Site empress, crowning good, repressing ill. There is more than a breath of this temper and style in... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 504 Seiten
...knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : The* constitute a state, And sovereign Law, that state's...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. There is more than a breath of this temper and style in Wordsworth ; but in Shelley's prophecies the... | |
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