| 1795 - 690 páginas
...Some of our readers will prefer the following picture of a patient african : p. 35. ' SONNET III. ' Oh he is worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his...fcorching fun, As pitylefs as proud Profperity, Darts on Aim his full beams ; gafping he lies Arraigning with las Ipoks the patient Ikies, While that inhuman... | |
| 1797 - 506 páginas
...intermingled leaves, And 1 have twin'd the myrtle for thy brow. SONNET. THE PATIENT NEGRO. (From the fame.) OH he is worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his...beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature finks. The fcorchiug fun, As pitylefs as proud Profperiiy, Darts on him his full beams ; gafping he lies Arraigning... | |
| 1797 - 618 páginas
...character, it admits of great elegance : we think Mr. Southey's Sonnets on the Slave Trade will pleafe every friend to humanity. We prefent the following...Down his dark cheek ; hold — hold thy mercilefs haudj Pale tyrant! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature finks4 The fcorching fun, * As pitylefs... | |
| Robert Southey - 1797 - 236 páginas
...that curst bark beneath the mountain wave, And bkss with Liberty and Death the Slave t 8 ONNET IIT. OH he is worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his dark cheek; hold — hold thy merciless hand, Pale tyrant ! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature sinks. The scorching... | |
| 1797 - 614 páginas
...the sonnett we shall copy. It will prove that here the author's feelings are sufficiently alive ! • Oh he is worn with toil ! the big drops run : Down his dark cheek ; hold — hold thy merciless hand. • Pale tyrant ! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature sinke. The scorching... | |
| Capel Lofft - 1813 - 274 páginas
...shall be redeemd from thisTrafic in Misery and Horror.—C. 1.. CCLXXXVII. BY THE SAME. AFR. SONN. O, HE is worn with toil! The big drops run Down his dark cheek!—Hold, hold thy merciless hand Pale tyrant! for beneath thy hard command O'envearied Nature... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 406 páginas
...peace, Departing gently from a world of woes, Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. W)t Slaoe. OH, he is •worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his dark cheek : hold, hold thy merciless hand, Pale tyrant! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature sinks. The scorching sun,... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 páginas
...Departing gently from a world of woes, Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. SOUTHJSY. Stilt Slaoe. OH, he is worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his dark cheek : hold, hold thy merciless hand, Pale tyrant! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature sinks. The scorching sun,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 páginas
...Departing gently from a world of woes, Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. SOI/THEY, W)t Sfabe. OH, he is worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his dark cheek : hold, hold thy merciless hand, Pale tyrant! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied Nature sinks. The scorching sun,... | |
| James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 páginas
...than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree!" THE SLAVE. " Oh! he is worn with toil ! the big drops run Down his dark cheek ; hold— hold thy merciless hand , Pale tyrant ! for beneath thy hard command O'erwearied nature sinks. The scorching... | |
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