 | British poets - 1822 - 310 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...; blinds The eyesight of Discovery; and begets In tl-ose that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 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...science; blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets TH those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 470 pages
...only to destroy. - 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of a man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...only to destroy. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of a man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 pages
...arrived ? LIBERTY. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except...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 - 446 pages
...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 the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 - 252 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 248 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...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 meagre intellect,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 pages
...what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties ; impedes Their progress in the road to science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. How many houses were built in Philadelphia,... | |
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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... 
