 | 1818 - 616 sidor
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness un. til right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale,...become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, аш} earth have too much light" naturally. They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at all.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 sidor
...things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence , — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness , until right And wrong are accidents,...thoughts be crimes , and earth have too much light. XCIV, And thus they plod in sluggish misery , Rotting from sire lo son , and age to age , Proud of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 sidor
...things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents,...And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have toe much light. CXIV. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 sidor
...things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth -with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents,...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... | |
 | mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 sidor
...above all people on earth utterly reckless, to " Opinion, an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents,...should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimtes, and (jarth have too ' much light." " Captain Fitzelm," said Miss Avondel, coldly and gravely,... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 sidor
...the prescribed modes of thinking. " men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too hright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and Earth have too much light*." * Such are evidently not to he ranked amongst the disciples of Bacon, who says, " Let no man, upon... | |
 | 1822 - 858 sidor
...every track which appears to lead to conclusions at variance with the prescribed modes of thinking : " Men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, aud earth have too much light." Pp. 74, 75. The same error has proJiably lu m one principal cause of... | |
 | 1822 - 824 sidor
...appears to lead to conclusions at variance with the prescribed modes of thiuking : " Men grow pale best their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, aud earth have too much light." Pp. 74, 75. The same error has probably been one principal cause of... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 sidor
...short, and Truth a gem which loves the deep, Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their trampled... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 sidor
...all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents,...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... | |
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And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts... 
