| William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manicheau god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. "I'is liberty alone, that gives the flower Of fleeting life...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... | |
| Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1819 - 390 pages
...is fastened are burst, he will suddenly rise with ease to the natural standard of his character. " Tis liberty alone, that gives the flower Of fleeting...lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." Our enemies in Europe are still in the habit, in spite of the proofs we have given, both in peace and... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...Manichean god. Ador'd through fear, strong 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 what wisdom lays, on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 644 pages
...superstition seemed very prevalent in some towns ; the professors of the art kept regular shops. 'Tis liberly 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... | |
| William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flower Of fleeting...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...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... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...How many houses were bnilt in Philadelphia, during the autumn in which f'enn fint arrived ? LIBERTY. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...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... | |
| 1824 - 448 pages
...agreeable; an art which few learn, and fewer practise; hut it is one of so much importance, that it ' gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." His place in the coach was soon occupied by a young man, who was going to enjoy the sports of the field,... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...prerogative can please) Vs dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to 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... | |
| John S. Skinner - 1824 - 434 pages
...with a tender hand, And ;.ll tin- moral harmony of life." Whence even' >ii'lue flows, in rival strife, flower of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume, and we are weeds without them.'' In a word, let bachelors be assured that after all 'tis conjugal love and children, which ^ivc... | |
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