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
| William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise *. He is...freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...She execrates, indeed, The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff 'rers little praise. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside. There 's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
| Charles Lloyd - 1821 - 316 pages
...heart ; No mawkish love-tale, vast wrongs to declare ; No pangs arthritic, spasm, or cancerous smart, * He is the Freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." Cooper's Task. x2 18 My bodily functions one by one impair. These — 'tis my trust — I... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. He is...freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he... | |
| Richard Marks - 1823 - 258 pages
...persuaded to reform, but the dread of ridicule was like a triple chain about me. Well said the poet, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, " And all are slaves beside." How did I continue to labour in the drudgery of this chain, doing the works of Satan ! Not... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise-* He is...freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain* That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...themes, s cold on this, hhe execrates indeed [tie tvranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives tfie glorious sufferers little praise.» He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain, [bat hellish foes, confederate for his harm, 'an wind around him, but... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...this. She execrates indeed The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suffrers little praise.* He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
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