 | Religion - 1818 - 902 pages
...cleajc 8|U1 ni0h|t* *l<x>W,. ,, ,-,,, s ,,,jr, Shut from tlie common air, ami common use Of tlieir own limbs; how many drink the cup ' Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. - 'This affecting thought has continually occurred to us, while reading the sprightly and interesting... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 494 pages
...the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bl By shameful variance betwixt man and man How many pine in want and dungeon gtooms, Shut from the common air, and common us Of their own limbs. How many drink the c\ Of baleful... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring Hood, O piere'd by wintcry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake... | |
 | Charles RICHSON - 1820 - 98 pages
...feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain! How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame !• How many bleed, By shameful...the common air, and common use Of their own limbs f How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry... | |
 | Francis MACERONI - Great Britain - 1820 - 208 pages
...they drive the hirelings forth themselves to seek their liberation. Whilst they who dug the mine " Shut from the common air and 'common use Of their own limbs." — Thomp. no longer gold-enslaved, cast off' the sordid ore and gripe the falchion — roving as free... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flames. How many bleed By shameful variance betwixt man and...baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore p_ierc'd by wintry winds How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...devouring flood, Or more devouring flame ! How many bleed, , By shameful variance betwixt man and man ! 7. How many pine in want and dungeon glooms, Shut from...common use Of their own limbs ! How many drink the cap Of hateful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds. How many shrink... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...mr HIS MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANTS, ANECDOTES 01 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. " Ah! little think they — How many bleed By shameful variance betwixt man and man; How many pine in want and dungeon gloom, Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs." . - THOMSON. BRITISH LAW. ALTHOUGH... | |
 | Major Henry Court - Bangka Island (Indonesia) - 1821 - 290 pages
...In Palembang we see no houseless or starving poor, none " pining in want or in a dungeon's " gloom, shut from the common air and " common use of their own limbs." Of the revenues of the Sultaun of Palembang it would be difficult to form a monied estimate, as they... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 176 pages
...feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful...baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierced by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With... | |
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Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. 
