 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,...  An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-23 - Seite 72von William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 511 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...wafts perfumes to pride — No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow,... | |
 | 1854 - 572 Seiten
...moated gate : Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd : No ! Men, high-hearted men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow,... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 Seiten
...courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! men, — high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest,...beasts excel cold rocks, and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." • EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE.... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...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,...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...with more natural force than any episode in either of those wits, who were tua chief of mere mankind." In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men. who their ditties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 412 Seiten
...brutes, endued, In forest, drake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude. 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 !" And it... | |
 | 1854 - 402 Seiten
...brutes endued In forest, wake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and hamlets rude ; 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' Written... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 Seiten
...to pride. No : men, high-minded men. With powers as far above dull brutes, endued, In forest, drake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow,... | |
 | New Hampshire State Agricultural Society - 1854 - 416 Seiten
...courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfumes to pride — No ! men ! high-minded men, 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. of... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - 1855 - 380 Seiten
...spangled courts, Where low-bound baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow,... | |
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