 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are...All constraint. Except what wisdom lays on evil men, la evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...prerogative can please) AB dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds Tho eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 166 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...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... | |
 | Reasons - 1843 - 68 pages
...supplies us with an excellent answer:— " 'Tis liberty which gives the flower A fitting life—its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it....Except what wisdom lays on evil men, is evil— Hurts their faculties—impedes their progress In the road to science,—and begets, In those who suffer... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...to the throne, Not to the man who fills it as he ought /* "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are...All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, /* evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...Regard the interests of otters, as wrell as» your own. Tis liberty, alone, that gives '.he flower Of fleeting life its lustre, and perfume ; And we are weeds without il. Man's soul— -in a perpetual motion flows, And to no ralKard cause— that moduli owes. . Light—... | |
 | 1846 - 792 pages
...been described ; less liberty no man ought ever to accept. " 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." It is right that every citizen should desire to possess himself, govern himself, employ himself, exalt... | |
 | 1846 - 796 pages
...been described ; less liberty no man ought ever to accept. " 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." It is right that every citizen should desire to possess himself, govern himself, employ himself, exalt... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1846 - 336 pages
...part of the world ? Who but a Christian poet has ever sung, " 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without ill" Every where the men whose minds have been im* Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...Manichean god, Adored throug) tcdr, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are...All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, 1s evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of... | |
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 
