 | Robert Henry - 1814 - 468 Seiten
...be eafy to produce many proofs, of which the following high encomium on freedom or liberty is one : Ah Freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ; Freedom all folace to man gives ; He lives at eafe that freely lives. A noble heart may have none eafe, Nor nought... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 328 Seiten
...the worst I have to expect; and worse than that I will endure ere I give my hand to Campo-basso." " Ah, Freedom is a noble thing— Freedom makes man to have liking— Freedom .the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 620 Seiten
...abandon the means of liberty, the best gift that Heaven gives! — Oj well sung a poet of my own land — ,,Ah, Freedom is a noble thing — Freedom makes man to have liking — Freedom the zest to pleasure gives — • He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1824 - 982 Seiten
...his catalogue of 1823, at 18s. half-bound, uncut. * The opening of it is very fine and animating : Ah, FREEDOM is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to...solace to man gives, HE lives at ease that FREELY live* ! MAIR or MAJOR follows ; and HECTOR BOECE, very much his superior, is the next in succession.... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 494 Seiten
...following verses, divested of their ancient orthography, are flowing and spirited : • Fabian's Chronicle. Ah ! freedom is a noble thing ; Freedom makes man to have liking ; Freedom to all men solace gives : He lives at ease who freely lives. F. — Singular was the fate of Baston,*... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1831 - 416 Seiten
...the means of liberty, the best gift that Heaven gives ! — O, well sung a poet of my own land — ' Ah, freedom is a noble thing— Freedom makes man to have liking— Freedom the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1835 - 338 Seiten
...that feeling— to her so rare, the unwonted sense of liberty ! Well sings the old Scottish poet — " Ah ! freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man...to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives." BARBER — The Bruce. And Hester tripped along the meadow as light as the yellow butterfly brought... | |
 | 1837 - 664 Seiten
...his bearing upon the field of Bannockburn, we have exclaimed with the Archdeacon of Aberdeen, Oh ! freedom is a noble thing, Freedom makes man to have...liking; Freedom all solace to man gives, He lives at case that freely lives. A noble heart may have no case, Nor flics nought that may him please. If freedom... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning ? An, Freedom is a noble thing— Freedom makes man to have liking ; Freedom the zest to pleasure gives — He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1841 - 856 Seiten
...that feeling — to her so rare, the unwonted sense of liberty ! Well sings the old Scottish Poet — Ah ! freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man...solace to man gives; He lives at ease that freely live«." BARBER— Tie Bruce. And Hester tripped along the meadow as light as the yellow butterfly... | |
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Freedom the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are all Summ'd up within the name of thrall. 
