Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for its use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing. Typographical Journal - Страница 81896Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 страница
...they are grown mature , In wisdom, and with philosophic deeps Familiar, serve to emancipate the rest ! Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence what is ancient and can plead 300 11 Pursuit of fame with pedants fills our schools, And into coxcombs burnishes our fools. Young.... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 страница
...to emancipate the rest ! REVERENCE FOR ANTIQflTY A SNARE. — IRRATIONAL MOS8TROUSSRS3 OF SLAVERY. the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss,...anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary, mouldered delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing. But is it fit, or can it bear... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 464 страница
...they are grown mature In wisdom, and with philosophic deeds Familiar, serve to emancipate the rest ! Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence what is ancient, and can plead 300 A course of long observance for its use, knowing the vanity of their hearts, smiled at their request,... | |
| William Cowper - 1859 - 324 страница
...they are grown mature In wisdom, and with philosopic deeds Familiar, serve to ^emancipate the rest ! Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence...use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! But is it fit, or can it bear... | |
| William Cowper - 1860 - 506 страница
...they are grown mature In wisdom, and with philosophic deeds Familiar, serve t' emancipate the rest ! Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence...use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing. But is it fit, or can it bear... | |
| Charles Manley Smith - 1860 - 622 страница
...certain forms. WeU might the poet write — 14 Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To rev'rence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for Us use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to eon, Is kept and... | |
| 1861 - 356 страница
...sorrow, Beautiful the hollow show! WHITTIEE. Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To rev'rence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance...use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to son, la kept and guarded as a sacred thing. COWPEE. Nor custom, nor example,... | |
| Lewis Grout - 1864 - 416 страница
...because it was long." CHAPTER X. ZULU-KAFIR LAW AND GOVERNMENT ; THEIR INFLUENCE UPON THE NATIVE MIND. Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence...use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing. COWPEB. ALL the more important... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страница
...of our leaders' bells. Cowper, Tirocinium. Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To rev'rence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for its use, That cron servitude, the worst of ills, Because deliver'd down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as... | |
| 1869 - 306 страница
...sense of the word. should be examined, apart from the undue veneration which ancient usage receives. " Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence...use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing." So with woman. She has so... | |
| |