 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 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 progress... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...prerogative can please) A* dreadful as the Manichean god : Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. TU 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, I- evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...that charter, sanction'd sure 'T NO. 106. ENGLISH FREEDOM. IS 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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...the heart of every Englishman ; but in his most masterly production, the Task, he thus sings — ' "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...the heart of every Englishman ; but in his most masterly production, the Task, he thus sings — " "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...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... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Society of Friends - 1833 - 710 pages
...sorry, sly, and often simulating creature in the form of man. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowed ^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... | |
 | 1850 - 772 pages
...suld think Fredome uiar to pry Be Than ull the gold in warld that is." COWPER. " 'Tis Liberty nlone 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, IH evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 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... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...the heart of every Englishman ; but in his most masterly production, the Task, he thus sings — " "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume j And we are weeds without it. All constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is eyu : hurls the... | |
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. 
