As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,... The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Seite 34von William Cowper - 1830Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 Seiten
...had else As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat 20 With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? 25 I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble... | |
| Henry Dana Ward - 1828 - 428 Seiten
...Orations, p. 80.) t heart to laugh. Well said the psalmist in his haste. k ' All men are liars." Yea, and " What man, seeing this, " And having human feelings,...blush " And hang his head, to think himself a man." Yet to weep over human folly is of little use : our sympathy is misplaced, and the evil rarely corrected.... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1828 - 144 Seiten
...to be thrown, like bags of clay, into the Thames, in order to fill up the aperture in the tunnel. " And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" This is only one of the thousand evils whose origin may be fairly traced to literary Puffing. With... | |
| 1828 - 390 Seiten
...well awaken in the benevolent mind, a train of sensations which language is too barren to express. What man seeing this, And having human feelings, does...not blush And hang his head to think himself a man: In some instances, it is true, the number of lashes to be inflicted at one tude. The English villein,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 Seiten
...destroys ; As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat '20 With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps...when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man 1 And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 Seiten
...Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else 15 Like kindred drops been mingled into one. As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat 20 With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then... | |
| 1828 - 648 Seiten
...lashes in the morning, and was condemned to lie there till evening, when he was to have fifty more ! ' Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blnsh And hang his bead, to think himself a man ?' While here, Mr. Jeffereys visited a Catholic priest:... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 Seiten
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweatWith stripes, that rnercy," with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast Then... | |
| John Jackson (of Hull.) - 1829 - 52 Seiten
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast ! Then what ii man ? And what man seeing this, 21 not another consideration, this ought to he sufficient of itself... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 Seiten
...into one. 8. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be doplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot. Chains him,...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 4. Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, docs not blush And hang... | |
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