Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide. Poems - الصفحة 48بواسطة William Cowper - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 363عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Cowper - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...* * * Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill, Bemt the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied. First...pace, Secure of nothing — but to lose the race." This is Hogarth himself in verse, attiring melani•holy truth in ludicrous fiction. A book of fables,... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...555 Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...for a guide. Halting on crutches of unequal size, 560 One leg by truth supported, one by lies ; They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing... | |
| John Lingard - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...hold, instead of accusing us of such as we reject : that we shall hear no more of these charges, which Halting on crutches of unequal size, One leg by truth supported, one by lies, Thus sidle to the gaol with awkward pace, Secure of nothing but to lose the raee. 102 REMARKS A LATE... | |
| William Cowper - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill j Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...of nothing — but to lose the race. Faults in the lii'e breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again. The mind and conduct mutually... | |
| Essays - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...polluted mind, which corrupt the soil of the heart, and are also corrupted by it; as Cowper says : " Faults in the life, breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again ; Each sire and dam of an infernal race, Begetting and conceiving all that's base." Viz. in the natural... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...extensively iu all their kinds; conceive of things orderly, от iu a proper method. Watts'* Loyick. Faults in the life breed errors in the brain : And...reciprocally those again. The mind and conduct mutually imjírint And stamp their image in each other's mint : Each, sire and darn, of an infernal race. Begetting... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, FVst pot it out, then take it for a guide. Halting on crutches...unequal size, One leg by truth supported, one by lies; _ They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing — but to loose the race. Faults in... | |
| John Hughes - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...long, died hard, but was always beaten." This was genuine acting, so much like the reality — for Halting on crutches of unequal size, One leg by truth supported, one by (flies,) They sidle to the goal with awkward pace Secure of nothing but to lose the race. So it was... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...ev'ry wind iJJ* m? ?°wronS with a" ingenious skill, Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will, And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...unequal size One leg by truth supported, one by lies, Ihey sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing —but to lose the race. Faults in the... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...— but to lose the race. Faults in the life breed errours in the brain, And these reciprocally those again. The mind and conduct mutually imprint And... | |
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