 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. 455... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Js evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress...eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...alone, that gives the flow'r ; Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. AH constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds •: : The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And all are weeds withbut it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form."... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. ad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans...lyre. Sinco fate relentless stopped their heavenly suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 pages
...alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its'luster and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...The eyesight of discovery; and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 600 pages
...moral, and religious, would be effectual and satisfactory. PHILALETHBS. NEGATIVE AETICLB. — III. "All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...The eyesight of discovery, and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind — Bestial — a meagre intellect." — Cowper. " Thought [that of slavery]... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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,...The eyesight of discovery; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. THE... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life it's lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men,...evil: hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress iri the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery; and begets, In those that suffer it, a... | |
 | Clement Moore Butler - Funeral sermons - 1856 - 308 pages
...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 progress iu a road of science, Blinds tho eyesight of discovery, and begets In those who suffer it a sordid... | |
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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 in the road of science ; blinds The... 
