 There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared...  Poems, - Seite 117von William Cowper - 1817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...He shows the secret of his deep and untiring attachment to nature, in the love of Him who made it. " He is the Freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.* He is...freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1894 - 232 Seiten
...me to do so. 5. The enemy's squadrons broke and fled. 6. No sounds of labor vexed the quiet air. 7. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free ; and all are slaves besides. 8. To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn. 9. The reason is so clear that it... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 Seiten
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed 730 The tyranny that doomed them to the fire,^ But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. He is...freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There 's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, 735 With as much ease as... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1896 - 440 Seiten
...retreated toward the South. The loss was heavy on both sides. CHAPTER XLV. THE CIVIL WAR—Continued. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free And all are slaves beside." " The mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.'' EVENTS OF 1863. MORAL events are always... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...the Land of the Free. «. ABRAHAM COLES — The Microcosm, and Other Poems. National lyrics, P. 213. Hyperion. Bk. IV. Ch. V. O precious evenings ! all too swiftly besides. /. COWPER— The Task. Bk. VL 733. No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves,... | |
 | 1892 - 624 Seiten
...tpeak of what " the voice of the first sign "does : — unwillingness to believe in freedom.: — " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him, but he... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 Seiten
...of common life. His purity of character and great intellectual force are shown in all his writings. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That evil foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...Slave to myself I will not be; Nor shall my future actions be confined By my own present mind. COWLEY. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. COWPER. No ! Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 Seiten
...but half succeeded in his theft— Thyself remov'd, thy pow'r to sootiest left. FREE IN THE TRUTH. UK is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. Time's not i chain, That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he... | |
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