 And hiftory, fo warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious fuff'rers little praife *. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are flaves  Poems, - Strana 184podľa William Cowper - 1800Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1875 - Počet stránok 840
...and Cowper changes his strain of patriotic fervour into a prolonged devotional comment upon the text He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. . Who would have thought that we could gtfde so easily into so solemn a topic from... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - Počet stránok 452
...perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil men Is evil." " He is the Freeman whom the Truth makes free And all are slaves beside." The Task is essentially a religious Poem, and Cowper was the Religious Poet of the... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - Počet stránok 274
...Watchman). Cowper also distinguishes the freeman's possessions from the property of the landowners: He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes confed'rate for his harm Can wind around him,... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1992 - Počet stránok 1000
...Cowper's The Task, where Cowper argues (cf. John 8:32) that “Grace makes the slave a freeman”: He is the freeman whom the truth makes free And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | Judith Lomax - 1999 - Počet stránok 180
...of dependance on him, frees us from she tyranny of Satan, and the Slavery of an unjust world—for,- “He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are Slaves beside—it is while enjoying feelings such as these, that we are fill'd with a peace of mind... | |
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