 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
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Fiction - 1988 - 468 pages
...TRAGEDY. THUS man devotes his broiher, and destroys him; And worse than all, and most to be deplored Chains him, and tasks him and exacts his sweat With...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. — Cowmn. " KISMET," says the Oriental, when unaccountable evils beset his path ; " It is fate," says... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - Political Science - 1992 - 394 pages
...and connection among ideas, it is instructive to see a poem entitled "On Slavery," by William Cowper ("And what man seeing this,/ And having human feelings, does not blush/ And hang his head, . . . .") followed by the same author's "The Bastile" ("The shame to manhood, and opprobrious more/... | |
 | Marcus Wood - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 772 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...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 I sleep. And tremble while... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...brother, and destroys; 20 And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...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, 30 And tremble when... | |
 | Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...become "lawful prey" of cruel masters, who chain them, work them to exhaustion, and lash their bodies "with stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, / Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast." Cowper's words are strong: Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does... | |
 | Sally Ledger - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 19 pages
...text, which itself swiftly modulates from the " Portentous, unexampled, unexplain'd ! • What'inaii seeing: this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? — i I cannot rest A silent witness of the headlong rage, Or heedless folly; by which thousands... | |
 | Thomas F. Bonnell - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 403 pages
...HATRED i AND ON SLAVERY. Weqss when she sees inflicted on J beast* Then what is man ? and what mnn seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think: himself a man ? t would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep. And tremble when... | |
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