 There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared...  Poems, - Page 117by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1917 - 592 pages
...2. A subject in the singular takes its verb in the singular ; a plural subject takes a plural verb. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside. 3. A collective noun, when singular in form, may take a plural verb if the speaker is thinking... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. COWPER— Table Talk. L. 260. 24 OWNING — Blot on Hie 'Scutcheon. Act II. Sc. 1. Never the tim besides. COWPER— Task. Bk. VL 733. 25 1 want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the... | |
 | Anna De Koven - Citizenship - 1923 - 232 pages
...prosperous and self-reliant. CHAPTER II THE BEGINNINGS OF FREE GOVERNMENT \ i. THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. — COWPER. 1. Although the rule of the King was still allpowerful in England, the people had... | |
 | Charles E. Tomlinson - Political science - 1925 - 102 pages
...Cowper, a distinctly religious poet, to whom we owe these lines in " The Winter Morning Walk " :— He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. He is indeed a freeman. Free by biith Of no mean city ; plann'd or e'er the hills Were built,... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...* * Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow,' will have passed away. # # * He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. William Wordsworth. Ha dato il nome a un intero periodo della poesia inglese, il quale va... | |
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