 Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide.  Poems - Page 48by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bead the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a gnide. Halting on crutches of unequal siae, Ooe leg by truth supported, one by lies ; They sidle to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to then" own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...reciprocally those again. The mind and conduct mutually impriut And stamp their image in each other's mint : Each, sire and dam, of an infernal race, Begetting... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 220 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...of unequal size, One leg by truth supported, one by liea ; £ 2 They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing — but to lose the race. Faults... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...pace, Secure of nothing — but to lose the race. VOi. XXXVI. G Faults in the life breed errors in the ltr.ti;.And these reciprocally those again. The... | |
 | 1822 - 880 pages
...epigrammatic force and justice of whose verses always atone for the carelessness of their composition — that "Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again." : , A great many stories were told, too, of the feats performed by these worthies against their professors... | |
 | Susan Linn De Witt - 1823 - 496 pages
...awakening and guiding others to the duties they owed to God and their fellow-creatures. CHAPTER IX. •' And with a clear and shining lamp supplied First put it out, then take it lor a guide. Halting on crutches of unequal size; One leg by truth supported, one by lies ; They sidle... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...of nothing — but to lose the race. Faults in the hie breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again. The mind and conduct mutually imprint... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it tor a guide. Halting on crutches of unequal size, One- lep by truth supported, one by lies; They sidle... | |
 | William Carlisle - 1825 - 194 pages
..." Thus men go wrong•, with an ingenious skill, Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And, with a clear and shining' lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide : Hailing on crutches of unequal size, One leg l>y truth supported, one by lies, They sidle to the... | |
 | 1825 - 878 pages
...uncontrolltd plunge into pleasure's stream more than I must do, under various aspects. Well I know, that Faults in the life breed errors in the brain. And these reciprocally those again. Some — many, may essay and recover themselves, and prove at once better and wiser for the experience... | |
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