 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
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 446
...marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies bis song: And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates...that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise. Task, book v. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress : 0 thou, whom, borne on fancy's... | |
 | Edinburgh Emancipation Society - 1836 - Počet stránok 80
...recently it is since we had any title to protest or remonstrate at all, and never forgetting that ** he is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside." If in this great cause we wish to prosper, our efforts must be essentially and exclusively... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 592
...gifts All bear the royal stamp, that speaks them his, They are august; but this transcends them all. 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - Počet stránok 534
...same in ev'ry state ; And no condition of this changeful life, So manifold in cares, whose ev'ry day The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire. But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise.* Brines its on evQ wih k. makes it less : For he toe wingg, that Dehher <jrknfm,... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 492
...marble tells us whither. With their names No Ъага embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates, indeed, The tyranny that doomed them to the flre, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. COWPER. Peace could not be... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - 1838 - Počet stránok 212
...freedom, is an exemption from the controlling influence and bondage of evil propensities and passions. " He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free; And all are slaves beside." This may be called, for distinction's sake, moral freedom. It is far from implying,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - 1838 - Počet stránok 604
...has the poet Cowper expressed the privifes even in this life of him who receives the truth 'God: * He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Počet stránok 566
...marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song; And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates,...that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. n the Consistorial Register, we find the following entry:— ct. 12, 1679,... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1839 - Počet stránok 432
...character which the people sustain as citizens. The fear of God is the foundation of political freedom. « He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters... | |
 | sir Jahleel Brenton (1st bart.) - 1839 - Počet stránok 312
...the principles of his holy religion, and he will feel the justice of the poet's beautiful lines: " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." He will find himself further supported and strengthened in his firm and undeviating... | |
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