Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans; 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, little tyrants... John Howard - Seite 62von Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - 211 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Thomson - 1868 - 416 Seiten
...— the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom — little tyrants rag'd ; Snatch'd the lean morsel from the starving mouth ; Tore from cold wintry limbs the tatter'd weed ; Even robb'd them of the last of comforts, sleep ; sio The free-born Briton to the dungeon chain'd,... | |
| James Thomson - 1869 - 178 Seiten
...lash of vice. * The JaU Committee, in tile year 1729. While in the .and of liberty, the land 365 Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom, little tyrants raged ; Snatched the lean morsel from the starving mouth ; Tore from cold wintry limbs the tattered weed;... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 Seiten
...the lean morsel from the starving mouth, Tore from cold wintry limbs the tattered weed, E'en robbed them of the last of comforts, sleep ; The free-born Briton to the dungeon chained, Or, as the lust of crnelty prevailed, At pleasure marked him with inglorious stripes, And... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 516 Seiten
...land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,—little tyrants raged ; Snatched the lean morsel from the starving mouth, Tore from cold wintry limbs the tattered weed, E'en robbed them of the last of comforts, sleep ; The free-born Briton to the dungeon... | |
| J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 Seiten
...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, — little tyrants raged ; Snatched the lean morsel from the starving mouth, Tore from cold wintry limbs the tattered weed,... | |
| Adonijah Strong Welch - 1873 - 296 Seiten
...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,...mouth ; Tore from cold wintry limbs the tatter'd weed ; 370 E'en robb'd them of the last of comforts, sleep; The freeborn Briton to the dungeon chain'd,... | |
| James Thomson - 1873 - 758 Seiten
...— the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom — little tyrants rag'd ; Snatch'd the lean morsel from the starving mouth ; Tore from cold wintry limbs the tatter'd weed ; Even robb'd them of the last of comforts, sleep ; STU The free-born Briton to the dungeon chain'd,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 Seiten
...land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom, little tyrants rag'd : Suatch'd the lean morsel from the starving mouth ; Tore from cold wintry limbs the tatter'd weed; Even robb'd them of the last of comforts, sleep ; The free-born Briton to the dungeon chained, Or,... | |
| James Thomson - 1880 - 548 Seiten
...lash of vice. 1 The Jail Committee, in the year 1729. While in the land of liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom, little tyrants raged : Snatched the lean morsel from the starving mouth Tore from cold wintry limbs the tattered weed ;... | |
| James Thomson - 1881 - 502 Seiten
...burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice ? While in the land of Liberty, — the laud 365 Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,...; E'en robb'd them of the last of comforts, Sleep ; 370 The free-born Briton to the dungeon chain'd, Or, as the lust of cruelty prevail'd, At pleasure... | |
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