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" He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. "
Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ... - Seite 218
von William Cowper - 1793 - 359 Seiten
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The Task: A Poem in Six Books

William Cowper - 1811 - 228 Seiten
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise;* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free^ And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Band 24

New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 Seiten
...interfering with the " liberty of the subject." We need to remember the sentiment of the poet — " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." The only freedom worth contending for is the freedom that harmonizes with the dictates...
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Poems, Band 2

William Cowper - 1815 - 338 Seiten
...indeed The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff 'rers little praise *. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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The Eclectic Review, Band 11;Band 29

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 Seiten
...blessing to be co-extensive with human existence. In a lower sense we may adont Cowper's words : ' He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, ' And all are slaves beside.' America is not the land of liberty Even Mr. Birkheck started back at the prevalence...
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Poems, Band 1

William Cowper - 1821 - 556 Seiten
...indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise *. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Band 10

John Aikin - 1821 - 278 Seiten
...indeed, The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff 'rers little praise. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside. There 's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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Desultory Thoughts in London: Titus and Gisippus, with Other Poems

Charles Lloyd - 1821 - 316 Seiten
...heart ; No mawkish love-tale, vast wrongs to declare ; No pangs arthritic, spasm, or cancerous smart, * He is the Freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." Cooper's Task. x2 18 My bodily functions one by one impair. These — 'tis my trust...
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The retrospect; or, review of providential mercies: with anecdotes ..., Band 2

Richard Marks - 1823 - 258 Seiten
...persuaded to reform, but the dread of ridicule was like a triple chain about me. Well said the poet, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, " And all are slaves beside." How did I continue to labour in the drudgery of this chain, doing the works of Satan...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...indeed [tie tvranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives tfie glorious sufferers little praise.» He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain, [bat hellish foes, confederate for his harm, 'an wind around him,...
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The poems of William Cowper, with notes from his own correspondence

William Cowper - 1824 - 450 Seiten
...execrates indeed The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suffrers little praise.* He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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