 | William Cowper - 1826 - 504 pages
...only to destroy 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, • •...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeezed By... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...thus sings — ""fis liberty alone that gives the flower Of flveting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint Except...The eyesight of discovery; and begets In those that sufier it a sordid mind, — Bestial — a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, IB evil : hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1827 - 494 pages
...what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties ; impedes Their progress in the road to science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. How many houses were built in Philadelphia,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827 - 826 pages
...country." CHAPTER XI. 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. COWPER. THE squire would probably have expatiated at length on the topic of slavery, for it was one,... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 648 pages
...hallowed cause ; for Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. COWPER'S WINTER MORNING WALK, Book v. A French writer justly remarks, " Accoutumer les hommes a 1'humiliation... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 630 pages
...hallowed cause ; for Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. COWPER'S WINTER MORNING WALK, Book v. 167 A French writer justly remarks, " Accoutumer les hommes a... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...true. Anon. LIBERTY. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit THE POETICAL MELANGE. Thee therefore, still, blame-worthy as thon art, With all thy loss of empire,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...only to destroy. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of a man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as... | |
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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... 
