 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays, on evil men, Is evil : butts the faculties, impedes N 3 Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of Discovery; and begets, In those that sufier it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 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...; blinds The eyesight of Discovery; and begets In tl-ose that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 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...science; blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets TH those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...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...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of a man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...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...In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of a man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...and perfume ; \ ml we aro weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, fs evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeezed By... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 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...the faculties ; impedes Their progress in the road to science ; blindc The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...perfume ; And we are weed* without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evu : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science; blinds Theeyesight of discovery; and begets. In those that suffer it, a sordid mini!, Bestial, a meagre intellect,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 252 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...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blameworthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeezed By... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 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...impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds .i The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect,... | |
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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... 
