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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... "
The Poetical Note-book and Epigrammatic Museum: Containing More Than One ... - Page 217
by George Wentworth - 1824 - 383 pages
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 82

English literature - 1818 - 616 pages
...custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness un. til right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale,...become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, аш} earth have too much light" naturally. They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at all....
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The works, of ... lord Byron, Volume 7

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...short , and truth a gem which loves flie deep , And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence , — whose veil Mantles the...thoughts be crimes , and earth have too much light. XCIV, And thus they plod in sluggish misery , Rotting from sire lo son , and age to age , Proud of...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 7-8

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 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...And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have toe much light. CXIV. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age,...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 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...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...
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The woman of genius [by mrs. Ross].

mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...shade, to a phantom of which I should have imagined you above all people on earth utterly reckless, to " Opinion, an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth...should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimtes, and (jarth have too ' much light." " Captain Fitzelm," said Miss Avondel, coldly and gravely,...
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The fatalists; or, Records of 1814 and 1815, Volumes 4-5

mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 572 pages
...frail, Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weighed in custom's scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth...with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents. BYRON. " CHARLES," said Geraldine, commencing at breakfast the next morning the subject on which she...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions: And on Other Subjects

Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 300 pages
...the prescribed modes of thinking. " men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too hright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and Earth have too much light*." * Such are evidently not to he ranked amongst the disciples of Bacon, who says, " Let no man, upon...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 17

1822 - 858 pages
...every track which appears to lead to conclusions at variance with the prescribed modes of thinking : " Men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, aud earth have too much light." Pp. 74, 75. The same error has proJiably lu m one principal cause of...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 17

Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...appears to lead to conclusions at variance with the prescribed modes of thiuking : " Men grow pale best their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, aud earth have too much light." Pp. 74, 75. The same error has probably been one principal cause of...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical ..., Volumes 1-2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right...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...
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