 | James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 346 pages
...crush'd out lives, by secret, barbarous ways, That for their country would have toil'd or bled. 8*75 0 great design ! if executed well, With patient care,...of Mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the regal monsters into light. Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, 880 And bid the cruel feel... | |
 | Alexander Andrews - England - 1856 - 372 pages
...confined in the Fleet prison the same cruelties were practised. What says Thomson ? — 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,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...band,1 Who, touched with human woe, redressivo searched Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? Uupitied, ith flower-inwoven tresses torn, [mourn. The nymphs...tangled thickets In consecrated earth, • And on the h While in the land of Liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,... | |
 | John Field - 1856 - 332 pages
...human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ; Unpitied and unheard where mis'ry moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger...burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice."* Scarcely had Howard entered upon his office before it was his duty to attend the Judges of Assize,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1856 - 924 pages
...wretchedness, in which he himself had been a sufferer: •' Unpitied and unheard, where misery mourns, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1856 - 930 pages
...himself had been a sufferer : " l'npiWd «nd unheard, where misery mourns, Where sick n ess pin es, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice : While, in the land of liberty, the land Whose erery street and public meeting glow "Л i ti open... | |
 | James Thomson - 1858 - 458 pages
...out lives, by secret barbarous ways, That for their country would have toil'd or bled. 375 O {rreat design ! if executed well, With patient care, and...of Mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the regal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, 380 And bid the cruel fcel... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 pages
...and those on the continent to whom, as Protestants, bigotry denied freedom of worship and a home. " 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... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...generous band, Who, touch'd with human wo, redressive search'd 3GO Into the horrors of the gloomy jailj 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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...generous band,* Who, tonch'd with human woe, redressive search'd * The Jail Committee, in the yeur 1729. Into the horrors of the gloomy jail; Unpitied, and...hunger burn; And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ; While in the land of liberty, the land Whos : every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,... | |
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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. 
