 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
 | Mary Hayden Pike - 1854 - 334 strani
...lose her only friend. CHAPTER VII. " All tilings arc weighed in custom's falsest scale, Opinion is omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light." CIIILDE HAROLD. THE plantation of Richard Wynn, Esq., was situated som:wkere in the green and beautiful... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 strani
...loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 strani
...narrow, and our reason frail, *s Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd then' own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too... | |
 | Mary Langdon - 1855 - 492 strani
...lose her only friend. 12 CHAPT^K VII. ' All things are weighed in custom's falsest ceale, Opinion is omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth hare too much light.' CHILDE UAROIB. THE plantation of Richard Wynn, Esq., was situated some' where... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 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...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 strani
...loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale; Opinion and omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right...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... | |
 | Truman Marcellus Post - 1856 - 280 strani
...repression and erulacenjent of the human mind, and with the ene» .iCs ff progress, " grew pale Lest men's judgments should become too bright, And their free...thoughts be crimes, and earth Have too much light." • If Protestantism therefore be arraigned for its phi•osophy, as a crime, we are willing that Philosophy... | |
 | Truman Marcellus Post - 1856 - 284 strani
...and ej*fda.tei»>ent of the human mind, and with the enev *es i>f progress, " grew pale Lest men's judgments should become too bright, And their free...thoughts be crimes, and earth Have too much light." If Protestantism therefore be arraigned for its phiosophy, as a crime, we are willing that Philosophy... | |
 | Truman Marcellus Post - 1856 - 276 strani
...and e?"!5ls.ien>ent of the human mind, and with the enev •.e» of progress, " grew pale Lest men's judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth Have too much light.'1 If Protestantism therefore be arraigned for its phi:osophy, as a crime, we •are willing,... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1856 - 376 strani
...constituents." A Poet (Byron) having seen the monster full grown, thus portrays him, — " Opinion, an Omnipotence whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness until right And wrong are accidents." But what I am dealing with is "a public opinion," not a word, but a power; not the frailties of individuals... | |
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