 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...  Sidney Roemlee: A Tale of New England - Page 254by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827Full view - About this book
 | 1915 - 814 pages
...173 sentiment est incompatible avec la souffrance, nne domination injuste ». Et Cowper chantait: « 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...its lustre and perfume And we are weeds without it. Ail constraint Except what wisclom lays on evil men Is evil ». 1 Ce résumé trop bref et fragmentaire... | |
 | John Morley - 1910 - 1028 pages
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 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - 1911 - 820 pages
...LIBRARY AMERICAN STATE PAPERS 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster 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 eyesight of discovery;... | |
 | 1912 - 546 pages
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 | Marie West King - 1911 - 70 pages
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 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...of the good they seek. 2674 Cowper : Task. Bk. v Line 373 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life 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... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...liberties. by the known and admitted influence of freedom in developing the higher faculties of man. " "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume." History verifies this sentiment. Its voice distinctly declares, that freedom is the great moving power... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 668 pages
...possible. Thus, in " The Task," Cowper passes by an easy transition from one idea to the other : " Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...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... | |
 | 1913 - 264 pages
...of virtuous liberty la worth a whole eternity in bondage. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life 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.... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean God, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. yes are made so killing ' — was his last. Thus on...dies. When bold Sir Plume had drawn Clarissa down, ; hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress iu the road of scieuce ; blinds The eyesight of discovery,... | |
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