 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek. 2674 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 373 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 2675 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 445. Oh, could I worship aught beneath the skies, That earth has seen... | |
 | 1913 - 264 pages
...Dryden: Palamon and Arcite. A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty la worth a whole eternity in bondage. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. Cowper: Task. — The wish, which ages have not yet subdued In man, to have no master save his mood.... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 668 pages
...passes by an easy transition from one idea to the other : " Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it." Like so many of his countrymen, he is careful to contrast the polite servility of the French with the... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pages
...Manichean God, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower t. Thus on Mteander's flowery margin lies Th' expiring...drawn Clarissa down, Chloe stepp'd in, and kill'd 450 Their progress iu the road of scieuce ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets, In those... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...Manichean God, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Ь ys on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress iu the road of science;... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 854 pages
...Manichean god,1 Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower e: who can be a companion of thy course! The oaks of the mountains fa 145 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN, ANN BODHAM (c. 1790)... | |
 | 1916 - 550 pages
...various forms, or weeping over the woes of the poor : ' ' 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. "si "Fled are those times when, in harmonious strains. The rustic poet praised his native plains. No... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1917 - 152 pages
...of human progress. These men of hope all felt with Cowper: 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.^ In welcoming the earlier stages of the French revolt against despotism all the Whigs, with the one... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1918 - 956 pages
...itself is not worth the having. In the words of Cowper: " "Pis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." Gentlemen of the jury, white and colored, what I have thus said, I have spoken from my heart, and have... | |
 | John Morley - 1920 - 1026 pages
...he was never weary of quoting the lines abont liberty : — Tia liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are...constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men Is erO. It was this association of solid doctrine with genial enthusiasm and high ideals, that distinguished... | |
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 
