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 History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of ... - Página 109por Thomas Clarkson - 1808Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she see* indicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...to-morrow's sun, their annual toil Begins again the never-ceasing round. Thomson's Seasons — Autumn. Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man. Cowper's Task, b. 2. The million flit as gay As if created only like the fly That spreads his motley... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 470 páginas
...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,...sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart \Veeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? and what man seeing this, And having... | |
| Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 páginas
...that a custom, nearly similar to this, still exists in Lancashire and part of Yorkshire, in England. And what man seeing this, And having human feelings,...not blush. And hang his head to think himself A MAN ? It does not much astonish me, that in a country like Canada, the inhabitants of which live in a halfsavage... | |
| Luke Herbert - 1824 - 394 páginas
...the wheel to quiet them before her turn to be relieved came." " Portentous, unexampled, unexplained,! What man seeing this. And having human feelings, does not blush, And bang his head to think himself a man ?" It will be observed, that we have only noticed a few of the... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 páginas
...into one. 7. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and extracts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on... | |
| William Cowper - 1825 - 252 páginas
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man 1 I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...and hear, and understand the simple history of every smiler there, we should go home and shudder. " Then what is man ? and what man, seeing this, And...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" Yes! Arabian fiction may have charmed, and cheated, our unthinking youth, and we may still delight... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...and hear, and understand the simple history of every smiler there, we should go home and shudder. " Then what is man ? and what man, seeing this, And...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" Yes ! Arabian fiction may have charmed, and cheated, our unthinking youth, and we may still delight... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 páginas
...sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 4. Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, And having...human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to thinlt himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,... | |
| |