 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,...  William Cowper: sa correspondance et ses poésies - Sivu 209tekijä(t) Léon Boucher - 1874 - 437 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 sivua
...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...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wca.t" That sinews bought and sold have e irer earn 1 5. No: dear as freedom is, and in rr.y heart's... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 sivua
...hope of abolishing slavery ? No : he would never give it up, but exclaim in the words of the poet, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd."... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 sivua
...and exacts his sweat \Vith 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 hang his head, to think himself a man ? And having Iruman feelings, does not blush I would not have... | |
 | Richard SAMBLE, Mary Ann Hedge - 1823 - 206 sivua
...to the purchasers of which will be afforded all the facilities wished." * * • " What man reading this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man p 94, CHAPTER VII. " Authority usurp'd from God, not given. He gave us over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 436 sivua
...resist the order of providence which is carrying him away !" " Ah what is man ! And what man reading this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head to think himself a man !" The following affecting little sketch, which the same writer almost immediately subjoins, is characterized... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sivua
...and exacts his sweat 1 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 paying human feelings, does not bltfsh", And hang his head, (o think himself a man ? 1 would not have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 sivua
...his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a heast. Then what is man ? and what man seeing this, And having...not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to ian me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sivua
...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... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 sivua
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sivua
...tasks him, and exacts his sweat With 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, docs not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground,... | |
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