 | 1818 - 616 pages
...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 pages
...and truth a gem which loves flie 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 lo son , and age to age , Proud of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...phantom of which I should have imagined you above all people on earth utterly reckless, to " Opinion, an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimtes, and (jarth have too ' much light." " Captain Fitzelm," said Miss Avondel, coldly and gravely,... | |
 | mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 572 pages
...Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weighed in custom's scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents. BYRON. " CHARLES," said Geraldine, commencing at breakfast the next morning the subject on which she... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...which 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... | |
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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... 
