 | Henry Godwin - 1842 - 1018 pages
...to a miserable state of ruin and desolation seven more, leaving only four uninjured !* CHAPTER VHI. Opinion an omnipotence,— whose veil Mantles the...with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
 | Malachi Mouldy (pseud.) - 1844 - 310 pages
...ruin and desolation seven more, leaving only four uninjured !* * Tac. Ann \\. c. 41. CHAPTER VIII. Opinion an omnipotence,— whose veil Mantles the...with darkness, until right And wrong; are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
 | Mrs. M. L. Shew - Child care - 1844 - 268 pages
...not to 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, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should beam too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
 | Robert Townley - Second Advent - 1845 - 194 pages
...unbeliever : — " 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, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...Life short, 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...with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become loo bright, [too much light. And their free... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...and truth a gem which loves the dnep, And ail things weigh'd in custom^ falsest scale ; Opinion and like rain From olT the scorch'd and blackening roof, Whose thickness was not vengeance-proof. Th and men grow pale Le*t thoir own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crime*,... | |
 | Christopher Thomson - Artisans - 1847 - 432 pages
...hath respectively engendered. What a melancholy truth is embodied in the noble poet's definition of opinion:— ' An omnipotence whose veil Mantles the...with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; r h and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright. And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1847 - 480 pages
...idol th'it they have erected in their own infatuated imaginations. Such as these it is that make " Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wronff are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright. And their... | |
 | Secularism - 1850 - 574 pages
...Life short, and truth a gem that loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the...with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes,... | |
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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 be crimes, and earth have too much light. 
