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" Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. "
Collections of the Georgia Historical Society - Page 8
by Georgia Historical Society - 1840
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Side-lights on the Georgian Period

George Paston - England - 1902 - 394 pages
...generous band Who, touched with human woe, redressive, search Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth...rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give."' Turning from the treatment of criminals to the laws by which they were supposed to be convicted, we...
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John Howard

Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1905 - 258 pages
...bled. O great design ! if executed well, With patient care and wisdom-tempered zeal. Ye sons of mercy I yet resume the search ; Drag forth the legal monsters...iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. Much still untouch'd remains ; in this rank age, Much is the patriot's weeding hand required. The toils...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...wisdom-tempered zeal. Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, 380 Wrench from their hands oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. Much still untouched remains : in this rank age, Much is the patriot's weeding hand required. The toils...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...wisdom-tempered zeal. Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, 380 Wrench from their hands oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. Much still untouched remains : in this rank age, Much is the patriot's weeding hand required. The toils...
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Thomson's Seasons

James Thomson - Seasons - 1908 - 402 pages
...Wisdom-temper'd Zeal. Ye Sons of Mercy! yet resume the Search; Drag forth the legal Monsters into Light, 380 Wrench from their Hands Oppression's iron Rod, And bid the Cruel feel the Pains they give. Much still untouch'd remains; in this rank Age, 2 lines omitted Much in the Patriot's weeding Hand...
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Animals' Defender and Zoophilist, Volumes 35-36

1916 - 326 pages
...irregularities to conceal and who might even be disposed in the privacy of their own chamber to cry, " Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from...rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give." The Animals' Friend Society have issued in pamphlet form an interesting speech by Mr. John Galsworthy...
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James Oglethorpe in England and Georgia

Eugenia Estill - Georgia - 1926 - 142 pages
...would have toiled or bled. 0 great Design ! if executed well, With patient care, and wisdom-tempered zeal, Ye sons of Mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag...iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. Much still untouched remains; in this rank age Much is the patriot's weeding hand required. The toils...
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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in ...

John Bender - History - 1987 - 355 pages
...Note, in particular, the change to the imperative in the later version: O great Design! if execu?ed well, With patient Care, and Wisdom-temper'd Zeal....iron Rod, And bid the Cruel feel the Pains they give. (11. 376—81) 283 33. A Report . . . Relating to the Fleet Prison, pp. 9—10. The appendix following...
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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in ...

John Bender - History - 1987 - 355 pages
...imperative in the later version: O great Design! if execured well, With patient Care, and V'isdom-temper'd Zeal. Ye Sons of Mercy! yet resume the Search; Drag...iron Rod, And bid the Cruel feel the Pains they give. (11. 376-81) 33. A Report . . . Relating to the Fleet Prison, pp. 9—10. The appendix following page...
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Free Trade: 1793-1886, Volume 3

Lars Magnusson - Commerce - 1997 - 264 pages
...cold-blooded, and demoniac outrage on humanity can rouse, yet this is daily perpetrated in "happy England." Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth...iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. In addition to the miseries of their excessive toil, their food is scanty and far from nourishing;...
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