 | David Urquhart - 1856 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Jerome Kidder - 1857 - 390 pages
...and truth a gem that lores the deep, And all things weighed in custom's falsest scale : Opinion is omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness...accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments shonld become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,and earth hare too much light." NOTE 17.—... | |
 | Mary Hayden Pike - 1857 - 338 pages
...custom's falsest scale, Opinion is omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until rirht And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should beeome too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much lisjht." CJIILUE HAROLD.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...and truth a gem which loves the deep, And nil 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. XC1V. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 pages
...the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose vet Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong...and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should hecome too hright, And their free thoughts he crimes, and earth have too much light. (1l See " Historical... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 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. 3tciv. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...And all things wcigh'd in custom's falsest scale : Opinion and Omnipotence, — whose veil Mtntlcs the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are...Lest their own judgments should become too bright, ind their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. XCIV. And thus they plod in sluggish... | |
 | Kinahan Cornwallis - 1862 - 370 pages
...and truth a gem which lovea 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." " Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert, whence arise But weeds of dark... | |
 | K. C. - 1862 - 356 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,...bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth hare too much light." "Alas! our yonng affections run to waste, Or water but the desert, whence arise... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 pages
...And ail things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Nanties tbe earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents,...and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should heroïne too bright, And theirfree thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light que les événements... | |
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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... 
