 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick, with ev'ry day's report Of wrong...Earth is fill'd, There is no flesh in man's obdurate haart, It does not feel for man ; the nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...day's"report Or'wrong and outrage, wkh which earth isfilPd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; II does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the tooch of fire : He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Nut colour'd like his own: and having pow'r T'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...which Earth is lill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own; and having power To' enforce the wrong,... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1822 - 400 pages
...Where rumour of oppression and deceit " Might never reach me more." And truly has he told us that " There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, " It does not feel for man." " ' And still less — oh, Louisa !' and she clasped my hand with energy, ' how much less does it feel... | |
 | Richard SAMBLE, Mary Ann Hedge - 1823 - 206 pages
...beings they intend to make the instruments of their inhuman thirst of gain. (Note A..) " The natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire— And having pow'r T" enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause, Dooms and devotes him as his lawful... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and...the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T* enforce the wrong,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and...heart, It does not feel for man ; the nat'ral bond ~*f brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...unsuccessful or successful war, alight never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth...man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of lire. He finds... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain V , My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which Earth...man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful and successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filTd. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that... | |
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. 
