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 207by Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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