 And all things weigh'd in 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 their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts...  The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review - Stran 206uredili: - 1818Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | George Ripley - 1839 - 174 strani
...stop. We have too much confidence in Providence and in human nature to sympathize 'with those who | . grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too...thoughts be crimes, and earth, have too much light. • A spirit is abroad, free, bold, uncompromising, and terrible as an army with banners, which is... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 strani
...and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...wrong are accidents, and men grow pale, Lest their own judgements should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light."... | |
 | JOHN FORBES - 1839 - 616 strani
...lays bare too much the sophistry which shrouds many artificial social relations whereupon men fear " Lest their own judgments should become too bright,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.'' The monomania, if it can properly so be called, of drunken persons, of incendiaries, and of homicides,... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1839 - 386 strani
...understood. We have too much confidence in Providence and in human nature to sympathize with those who grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earlh have too much light. A spirit is abroad, as we have said, free, bold, uncompromising and terrible... | |
 | 1840 - 594 strani
...too much acquaintance with the works of God, or with our own nature, hopes, and duties. "What! shall men grow pale, Lest their own judgments should become...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light?" AM THE CHARACTER OF MOSES: A DISCOURSE. BY WILLIAM MACCALL. " So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 strani
...And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles (he 0 ̅ Ӏ 0 XC1V. And thus they plod in sluggish misery. Rotting from sire to sou, and age to age. Proud of their... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 strani
...and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh 'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an e ihall leave it, and proceed in a tandem through...«nable as to view places inaccesible to vehicular xcrv. And thus they plod in sluggish misery. Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
 | Henry Godwin - 1842 - 1018 strani
...miserable state of ruin and desolation seven more, leaving only four uninjured !* CHAPTER VHI. Opinion an omnipotence,— whose veil Mantles the earth with...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. CHILDP. HAROLD. IT so happened that the house into which Pudens had been taken, was the residence of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 strani
...the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's iaisest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose vei Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong...thoughts be "crimes, and earth have too much light. (1) See " Historical Notes," at the end of this Canto, No. XXVI. xciv. And thus they plod in sluggish... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1843 - 56 strani
...omnipotence—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness—until right And wrong are accidents—and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light! The operation of blood-letting is so connected and associated in the minds of most men, with the practice... | |
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