...port, defiance in their eye :" — which on further consideration is more judiciously arranged — " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by." In a few passages, thoughts are repeated which particularly pleased him in prose, and were thought...

...choose, CHARTER J. "My genius spreads her WHIR , And flies where Britain courts the western spring Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, lntenl on high designs." GOLDSMITH. WITH what a proud and exciting feeling an Englishman ought lo enter...

...one of his flatterers has drawn of him in lines as striking as, in his opinion, they are correct— " Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by"— would only suspect that he is not altogether an impeccable personage, it would doubtless be better...

...alit. — In tantd tieris indulgentid firitaunicus ager omnis generis semina facile concepit.' — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human 1iind pass by, &c. 'Jam spontanea felicitas securum et opulentium vulgus non modico tnmore sustollit,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...at the head of the government. Goldsmith describes the bearing of the Englishman of his day : — ' Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by.' Michelet found in England 'human pride personified in a people,' at a time when the characteristic...

...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, but there is no doubt that the conquest and rule of that vast land have tended to enhance that feeling...