 | 1913 - 264 pagine
...be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. Herbert: Temple. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. Cowper: Task. Truth is eternal, and the Son of Heaven, Bright effluence of th' immortal... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pagine
...indeed 730 The tyranny that doomed them to the lire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.1 ompany slaves beside. There 's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him,... | |
 | 1915 - 580 pagine
...first we practice to deceive." — Scott. -for truth is truth to the end of reckoning.Shakespeare. "He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside." — Camper. Hymn in the LDS Hymn Book, "Oh Say What is Truth," etc.- — John Jaques.... | |
 | Plutarch - 1916 - 306 pagine
...hath made us free" — an idea happily amplified by Cowper, at the end of the fifth book of his Task. He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free. And all are slaves beside, Sac. l)ed, where it used to hang ; for Ijis son had taken it away while he was at supper.... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - 1917 - 592 pagine
...2. A subject in the singular takes its verb in the singular ; a plural subject takes a plural verb. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside. 3. A collective noun, when singular in form, may take a plural verb if the speaker is... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagine
...thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. COWPER— Table Talk. L. 260. 24 OWNING — Blot on Hie 'Scutcheon. Act II. Sc. 1. Never slaves besides. COWPER— Task. Bk. VL 733. 25 1 want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for... | |
 | Anna De Koven - 1923 - 232 pagine
...prosperous and self-reliant. CHAPTER II THE BEGINNINGS OF FREE GOVERNMENT \ i. THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. — COWPER. 1. Although the rule of the King was still allpowerful in England, the people... | |
 | Charles E. Tomlinson - 1925 - 102 pagine
...Cowper, a distinctly religious poet, to whom we owe these lines in " The Winter Morning Walk " :— He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. He is indeed a freeman. Free by biith Of no mean city ; plann'd or e'er the hills Were... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pagine
...* * Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow,' will have passed away. # # * He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. William Wordsworth. Ha dato il nome a un intero periodo della poesia inglese, il quale... | |
 | 1941 - 120 pagine
...of main service and assistance toward the speedy attainment of what is truest.—John Milton (1644). He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. —William Cowper (1785). True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they... | |
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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, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. 
