 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r 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 450 Their... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...prerogative can please) AB dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r 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 450 Their... | |
 | Iran - 1842 - 144 pages
...it? Because the noble faculties of the mind were enslaved. '"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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...attachment to the throne, Not to the man who fills it as he ought. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Chambers All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 378 pages
...ignorance, but slavery will still sooner extinguish knowledge. " 'T is 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... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 pages
...ignorance, but slavery will still sooner extinguish knowledge. " 'T is 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...to the throne, Not to the man who fills it as he ought /* "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, /* evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...attachment to the throne, Not to the man who fills it as he ought. '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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...Regard the interests of otters, as wrell as» your own. Tis liberty, alone, that gives '.he flower Of fleeting life its lustre, and perfume ; And we are weeds without il. Man's soul— -in a perpetual motion flows, And to no ralKard cause— that moduli owes. . Light—... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r 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... | |
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. 
