| Adonijah Strong Welch - English language - 1873 - 296 pages
...CENTURY. And here can I forget the generous band, 360 Who, touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ; Unpitied, and...burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice? 365 While in the land of Liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,... | |
| James Thomson - 1873 - 760 pages
...Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Unpitied and unheard where Misery moans, Where Sickness pine's, 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... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1874 - 464 pages
......" Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. 0 great design ! if executed well, With patient care,...wisdom-temper'd zeal. Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search ; 1 irag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands oppression's iron rod, And bid... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...hand, Who, touch'd with human woe, redressive scarch'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Unpity'd, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines...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,... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 622 pages
...which the walls of a prison could not hide from him, 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... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...Winter." " And here can I forget the generous band Who, touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Unpitied and...burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice." The precincts of the prison were long celebrated for the notorious " Fleet Marriages," which were performed,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1878 - 516 pages
...touched with human woe," had searched " into the horrors of the gloomy jail," thus proceeds: — ..." Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn,...great design ! if executed well, With patient care and wisdom-tempered zeal. Ye sons of mercy ! yet resume the search ; Drag forth the legal monsters into... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1878 - 624 pages
...which the walls of a prison could not hide from him, 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...gradual bliss, Refining still, the social passions work. And here can I forget the generous band,1 Who, touched with human woe, redressive searched Into...burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. 1 The Jail Committee, in the year 1729. While in the land of liberty, the land Whose every street and... | |
| Gilbert Elliot Earl of Minto - British - 1880 - 1048 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,... | |
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