 | Malachi Mouldy (pseud.) - 1844 - 310 pages
...desolation seven more, leaving only four uninjured !* * Tac. Ann \\. c. 41. CHAPTER VIII. Opinion an omnipotence,— whose veil Mantles the earth with...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. CHILDE HAROLD. IT so happened that the house info1 which Pudens had been taken, was the residence of... | |
 | Mrs. M. L. Shew - 1844 - 260 pages
...prevent disease. Not so should it be; but " All things are weighed in custom's falsest scale, Opinion, an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should beam too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light." In consequence... | |
 | Robert Townley - 1845 - 194 pages
...And truth, a gem which loves the deep, And all things weighed in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light." — BYRON. The thought will often suggest itself, that, look what way one will, whether back into the... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1845 - 216 pages
...omnipotence—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness—until right And wrong are accidents—and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light !" The operation of Blood-letting is so associated, in the minds of most men, with the practice of... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...considered injurious in their consequences, and men are afraid to entertain them. " Men grow pale, Leat their own judgments should become too bright, And...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light" The irrational opinions generally embraced regarding the freedom of the will, are advanced and supported... | |
 | Robert Townley - 1845 - 196 pages
...in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, nntil right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should hecome too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light." — BYRON. The... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 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...men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become loo bright, [too much light. And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have XCIV. And thus they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...reason frail,** Life short, and truth a gem which loves the dnep, And ail things weigh'd in custom^ , And the hot lead pour down like rain From olT the...thickness was not vengeance-proof. They little thought Le*t thoir own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crime*, and earth have... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 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... | |
 | Christopher Thomson - 1847 - 432 pages
...engendered. What a melancholy truth is embodied in the noble poet's definition of opinion:— ' An omnipotence whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.' Now, if the moral judgment of man hath been so oft perverted by leaning to the seductive influence... | |
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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... 
