 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 474 pages
...1837. [Price 3i/. >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 man, It evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road.of Science ; blinds The eyesight... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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, Except...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...destroy. 'T is liberty alone, that gives the flovr'r Of fleeting life it's lustre and perfume ; And we ana weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as thon art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeez'd By... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 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 450Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of Discovery; and begets, In those that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...strong only to destroy. TU 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, I- evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...ENGLISH FREEDOM. IS liberty alone, that gives the flow'r 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. 10 Thee therefore still, blame-worthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and tho' squeez'd By... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...thus sings — " "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. Thee, therefore, still, blameworthy as .thou art, Thee I account still happy, and the chief Among.... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...thus sings — ' "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. Thee, therefore, still, blameworthy as thou art, Thee I account still happy, and the chief Among the... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Society of Friends - 1833 - 710 pages
...the form of man. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowed ^Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...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 - 772 pages
...lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men, IH evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress...sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be die tenant of man's nuhle form." Many illustrations might be added to show i in- essential in the poetry... | |
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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... 
