| Mary Hayden Pike - 1854 - Liczba stron: 334
...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 - Liczba stron: 378
...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 - Liczba stron: 1126
...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 - Liczba stron: 492
...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 - Liczba stron: 376
...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 - Liczba stron: 833
...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 - Liczba stron: 280
...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 - Liczba stron: 284
...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 - Liczba stron: 276
...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 - Liczba stron: 376
...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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