 Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The...  Liberia's Offering: Being Addresses, Sermons, Etc - Seite 60von Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1862 - 167 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 Seiten
...liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of discov'ry ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 Seiten
...alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discov'ry ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind. Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit... | |
 | 1802 - 302 Seiten
...alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets, In those... | |
 | 1801 - 432 Seiten
...Liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...in the road of science — blinds The eye-sight of discov'ry — and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial — a meagre intellect —... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 Seiten
...alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, 101 And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...blinds The eye-sight of discovery, and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form*.... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 Seiten
...of freedom. Her sagacious mind taught her to know, what Cowper has so exquisitely described, that " all constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...blinds The eye-sight of discovery ; and begets In those that softer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form."... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 Seiten
...freedom. Her sagacious mind taught her to know, what Cowper has so exquisitely described, that • all constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eye sight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 Seiten
...alone, that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit 'o be the tenant of man's noble form.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 Seiten
...constrain^. Except \vha-t wisdom lays oh -evil men,. -.-.. .. ..- .: ,-• ItfO THE TASK. BCOK VIs evil: hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress...blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those- that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble formThee... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1806 - 342 Seiten
...exquisitely that all constraint 'Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; harts the facoJttes, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eye-sight of discovery ; and begeis In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of... | |
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