 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 686 pages
...sorry, sly, and often simulating creature in the form of man. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowed ^Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we...faculties ; impedes Their progress in the road of science ;, bhnds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets, In those that snffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a... | |
 | 1850
...uiar to pry Be Than ull the gold in warld that is." COWPER. " 'Tis Liberty nlone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume ; And we...All constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men, IH evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835
...I will sing at liberty's dear feet, In A tric's torrid clime, or India's fiercest beat. Table Talk. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. Task, book v. His depressive malady and the source of its cure : I was a stricken deer, that left the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835
...I will sing at liberty's dear feet, In Afric's torrid clime, or India's fiercest heat. Table Talk. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. Task, book v. His depressive malady and the source of its cure : I was a stricken deer, that left the... | |
 | 1835
...thus sings — " "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume j And we are weeds without it. All constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is eyu : hurls the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science j blinds The eyesight of discovery;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manicftean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, )s evil! hurts the faculties, impedes Their progtess in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836
...Manichean God, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are...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 that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836
...Manichean God, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are...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 that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835
...I will sing at liberty's dear feet, In Afric's torrid clime, or India's fiercest heat. Table Talk. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. Task, book v. His depressive malady and the source of its cure : I was a stricken deer, that left the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 514 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. "Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blind* The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that sufTer if, a sordid mind, . . ., Bestial,... | |
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 
