Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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 Legion of Liberty: And Force of Truth, Containing the Thoughts, Words ... - Page 207
by Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 336 pages
Full view - About this book

The Historical Reader: Designed for the Use of Schools and Families, on a ...

John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...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...blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when...
Full view - About this book

The poems of William Cowper, with notes from his own correspondence

William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...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...bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a heast. Then what is man ? and what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And...
Full view - About this book

A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 exacts...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,...
Full view - About this book

Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through ..., Volume 1

Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 848 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Poems of William Cowper, Esq

William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...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...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...
Full view - About this book

Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions, Volume 1

Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1824 - 394 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The task. [Followed by] Tirocinium

William Cowper - 1825 - 252 pages
...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 exacts...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 I wake, for all the wealth That sinews...
Full view - About this book

The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...his brother, aitd 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...not blush" And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, v And tremble when...
Full view - About this book

Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy

Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF