 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 414 pages
...the face of morn, Laugh'd them and Faith and Heaven to scorn ! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, —... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...harsh an anathema against traitors, we can easily pardon his warmth. Oh fora tongue to curse the slave. Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, —... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1817 - 728 pages
...222, an energetic imprecation against traitors. " Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treasoij, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, With... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...attempt was baffled, and the patriots betrayed to the gallows. " Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, With... | |
 | 1820 - 298 pages
...feeling with the poet in his exclamation of the following Hues* Oh ! for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the...brave, • . And blasts them in the hour of might : May life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, With hopes that but allure... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...the face of morn, Laugh'd them and Faith and Heaven to scorn ! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, —... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...favour of human liberty or human happiness. " Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like я deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them jn their hour of might ! May life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim ;... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 382 pages
...the tenant of the gloomy dungeons of the criminal. CHAPTER II. " O for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, With... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...the face of morn, Taugh'd them and Faith and Heaven to scorn ! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of night ! May life's unhlessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim,—... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - Northern Ireland in literature - 1825 - 586 pages
...throughout this undertaking a perfect uniformity of design. CHAPTER XX. " O for a tongue to curse the slave "Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might !" MOORE. ON the morning succeeding the day on which the royalists were repulsed,... | |
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might... 
