 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...  Poems - Страница 109написао/ла William Cowper - 1817Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 страница
...please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre...faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery; and begets In tl-ose that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 страница
...houses were bnilt in Philadelphia, during the autumn in which f'enn fint arrived ? LIBERTY. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre...the faculties ; impedes Their progress in the road to science ; blindc The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 страница
...Manichean god Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are...faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science : blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a... | |
 | 1824 - 448 страница
...agreeable; an art which few learn, and fewer practise; hut it is one of so much importance, that it ' gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." His place in the coach was soon occupied by a young man, who was going to enjoy the sports of the field,... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1824 - 434 страница
...with a tender hand, And ;.ll tin- moral harmony of life." Whence even' >ii'lue flows, in rival strife, flower of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume, and we are weeds without them.'' In a word, let bachelors be assured that after all 'tis conjugal love and children, which ^ivc... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 страница
...please) Vs dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; \ ml we aro weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, fs evil : hurts... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 страница
...destroy, ï liberty alone, that gives the flower Of fleeting Ufe Its lustre and perfume ; And we are weed* without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evu : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science; blinds Theeyesight of discovery;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 248 страница
...please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre...faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds .i The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 504 страница
...please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre...faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a... | |
 | 1826 - 440 страница
...masterly production, the Task, he thus sings — ""fis liberty alone that gives the flower Of flveting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without...faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery; and begets In those that sufier it a sordid mind, — Bestial —... | |
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