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" Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. "
Collections of the Georgia Historical Society - Page 8
by Georgia Historical Society - 1840
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...bliss, Refining still, the social passions work. And here can I forget the generous band,4 Who, toucb'd with human woe, redressive searched Into the horrors...burn. And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. While in the land of liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting 'glow With open freedom,...
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The Season: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...crush'd out lives, by secret baibnrous ways, That for their country would have toil'd,ot Wed.— • , O great design! if executed well, With patient care,...wisdom-temper'd zeal, Ye sons of Mercy ' yet resume the search ; * The Jail Committee, in the year 1729. >yr ''fllJ)g Alpg J'Jie generous ii'ce div'nn.' at n/h "OUS...
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The Seasons: and Castle of Indolence

James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pages
...generous band*, Who, touched with human woe, redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy gaol, Unpitied, and unheard, where Misery moans, Where Sickness...burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice. While in the land of Liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,...
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History of the Colonization of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 366 pages
...walls of a prison could not hide from his merciful eye, he searched into the gloomy horrors of jails, " Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice." In 1728, he invoked the interference of the English parliament; and, as a commissioner for inquiring...
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Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe: Founder of the Colony of Georgia ...

Thaddeus Mason Harris - Georgia - 1841 - 466 pages
...redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? Where misery moans unpitied and unheard, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ? «** • • • • • Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search, Drag forth the legal monsters...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 4

Commerce - 1841 - 604 pages
...a prison could not hide from his merciful eye, he searched into the gloomy horrors of jails, — ' Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.' " In 1728, he invoked the interference of the English parliament, and, as a commissioner for inquiring...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 4

Commerce - 1841 - 598 pages
...hide from his merciful eye, he searched into the gloomy horrors of jails, — 'Where sickness pince, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.' " In 1728, he invoked the interference of the English parliament, and, aз a commissioner for inquiring...
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The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence

James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 pages
...And crush'd out lives, by secret barbarous ways, That for their country would have toil'd or bled. O great design ! if executed well, With patient care, and wisdom-temper'd zeal. * The Jail Committee in tbe year 1729. Ye sons of Mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the legal...
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The Seasons

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - Seasons - 1842 - 378 pages
...band ', Who, touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? SGI Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where...burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. While in the land of liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,...
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The Library of American Biography

Jared Sparks - United States - 1844 - 438 pages
...woe, redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Where misery moans unpitied and unheard, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ? " But Oglethorpe was not the man to be weary in well-doing, because he enjoyed the triumph of immediate...
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