 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
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 страница
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 страница
...please) A* dreadful as the Manichean god : Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. TU liberty an rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods ; Sage beneath the I- evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 страница
...that charter, sanction'd sure 'T NO. 106. ENGLISH FREEDOM. IS liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume ; And we...faculties, impedes ( Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eye-sight of discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial,... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 страница
...every Englishman ; but in his most masterly production, the Task, he thus sings — ' "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—... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 страница
...sorry, sly, and often simulating creature in the form of man. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowed ^Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we...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 страница
...suld think Fredome uiar to pry Be Than ull the gold in warld that is." COWPER. " 'Tis Liberty nlone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre...All constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men, IH evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 страница
...Afric's torrid clime, or India's fiercest heat. Table Talk. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. Task, book v. His depressive malady and the source of its cure : I was a stricken deer, that left the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 страница
...tric's torrid clime, or India's fiercest beat. Table Talk. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. Task, book v. His depressive malady and the source of its cure : I was a stricken deer, that left the... | |
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