 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 - Page 218by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | John Brown - 1850 - 620 pages
...will we be made free indeed. How glorious is this liberty ! How happy they who are possessed of it I " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. He is indeed a freeman. Free by birth, Of no mean city ; plann'd or ere the hills Were... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...my sin, confessed, deplored, Against thine image in thy saint, O Lord ! COWPER. CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...execrates 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 besides. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1888 - 222 pages
...me to do so. 5. The enemy's squadrons broke and fled. 6. No sounds of labor vexed the quiet air. 7. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free ; and all are slaves besides. 8. To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn. 9. The reason is so clear... | |
 | American poetry - 1888 - 328 pages
...wide and high. Where loves, like stars, forever shine, And sympathies are deep, divine. JAMES BUCKHAM. 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,... | |
 | Lydia Hoyt Farmer - 1888 - 622 pages
...Interview with La Fayette — His Occupations in Paris — His Last Sickness — His Death — His Grave. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." — COWPER. LA FAYETTE was tall and well proportioned. He was decidedly inclined to... | |
 | Jews - 1889 - 368 pages
...Rothschild, of New York, M.; H. Hildburghauser, of New York, G. ; L- H. Wisebart, of Cincinnati, A. 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...indeed 730 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,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...ALLY. CONFEDERATE (Lat. conjctdcrare, to join by a league) is used of individuals in a bad sense. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him,... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 412 pages
...English Poets." Eev. A. Stopford Brooke. tion and assimilation by the human soul of heavenly truth : " He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Cowper's originality appears, not only as the champion of liberty, and as the poet... | |
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