 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pągines
...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,...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blame- worthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeez'd By... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pągines
...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,...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blame worthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeez'd By... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pągines
...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 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets, In those... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pągines
...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,...intellect — unfit To be the tenant of MAN'S noble form ! The Patriot and Martyr are thus also finely contrasted :— Patriots have toil'd, and in their country's... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 pągines
...alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, 101 And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...progress in the road of science, blinds The eye-sight of discovery, and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pągines
...of freedom. Her sagacious mind taught her to know, what Cowper has so exquisitely described, that " all constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...progress in the road of science ; blinds The eye-sight of discovery ; and begets In those that softer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 pągines
...freedom. Her sagacious mind taught her to know, what Cowper has so exquisitely described, that • all constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eye sight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pągines
...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,...progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit 'o... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pągines
...blinds • '. ] -ij •> 'b A The eyesight of discov'ry, and,begets, ' ^ „!Jn thos« that suiler it, a sordid' mind • Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blame-worthy as thou art, With all thy loss of •empire, and though ' sqneez'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pągines
...constrain^. Except \vha-t wisdom lays oh -evil men,. -.-.. .. ..- .: ,-• ItfO THE TASK. BCOK VIs evil: hurts the 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 meagre intellect, unfit To... | |
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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... 
