 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...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,...progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of discov'ry ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...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,...progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discov'ry ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind. Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...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 pages
...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,...in the road of science — blinds The eye-sight of discov'ry — and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial — a meagre intellect —... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 320 pages
...it was the anxious aim and the cordial desire of her long and splendid reign to civilize her people, by gradually unfolding to them, through a soft corrected...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,... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...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,...eye-sight of discovery, and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form*.... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...corrected medium, the glorious light of freedom. Her sagacious mind taught her to know, what Cowper has BO exquisitely described, that • all constraint Except...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 - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...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,...The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit 'o be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...constrain^. Except \vha-t wisdom lays oh -evil men,. -.-.. .. ..- .: ,-• ItfO THE TASK. BCOK VIs evil: hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress...eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those- that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble formThee... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life it's lustre and perfume ; . i And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes o 3 Their progress in the road of science ; hlind « in V/ The eyesight of Discov'ry ; and hegets,... | |
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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... 
