 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 T. Dobson - 1887 - Počet stránok 250
...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 indeed The tyranny that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise." * No No grander life than... | |
 | William T. Dobson - 1887 - Počet stránok 240
...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 indeed The tyranny that doomed them to the fire. But gives the glorious sufferers little praise." * No No grander life than... | |
 | 1887 - Počet stránok 568
...and to do their work. There is another poetic line that is familiar, I dare say, to many of you : " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside." Yon may have mere liberty, and not of light and not of God. You may combine liberty... | |
 | 1888 - Počet stránok 950
...Yet few remember them. —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." The violent measures taken by the persecutors for suppressing conventicles,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1888 - Počet stránok 222
...me to do so. 5. The enemy's squadrons broke and fled. 6. No sounds of labor vexed the quiet air. 7. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free ; and all are slaves besides. 8. To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn. 9. The reason is so clear... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - Počet stránok 376
...first were little fraternities of free men on the spiritual principle so happily expressed by Cowper, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." Thus the idea of Christian brotherhood was the cement which crystalized Society in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - Počet stránok 632
...indeed 730 The tyranny that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1891 - Počet stránok 204
...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 indeed The tyranny that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. He is the freeman whom the... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - Počet stránok 412
...Eev. A. Stopford Brooke. 260 ENGLAND. tion and assimilation by the human soul of heavenly truth: " He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Cowper's originality appears, not only as the champion of liberty, and as the poet... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1892 - Počet stránok 184
...twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. THE FREEMAN. HE is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,,... | |
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