| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion and omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. «' And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 616 pages
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness un. til right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale,...become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, аш} earth have too much light" naturally. They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at all.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence , — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness , until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest...thoughts be crimes , and earth have too much light. XCIV, And thus they plod in sluggish misery , Rotting from sire lo son , and age to age , Proud of... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest...And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have toe much light. CXIV. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth -with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. XCIV. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
| mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...earth utterly reckless, to " Opinion, an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest...should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimtes, and (jarth have too ' much light." " Captain Fitzelm," said Miss Avondel, coldly and gravely,... | |
| Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 300 pages
...the prescribed modes of thinking. " men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too hright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and Earth have too much light*." * Such are evidently not to he ranked amongst the disciples of Bacon, who says, " Let no man, upon... | |
| 1822 - 858 pages
...every track which appears to lead to conclusions at variance with the prescribed modes of thinking : " Men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, aud earth have too much light." Pp. 74, 75. The same error has proJiably lu m one principal cause of... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...appears to lead to conclusions at variance with the prescribed modes of thiuking : " Men grow pale best their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, aud earth have too much light." Pp. 74, 75. The same error has probably been one principal cause of... | |
| George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...which loves the deep, Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their trampled... | |
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