 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My sou! is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood... | |
 | Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more. My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong a:id outrage with which earth is filled." Thus Cowper wailed— Southey re-echoed his lamentations... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...oppression and deeeit, Of unsuceessful or suceessful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. The natural bond Of brotherhood... | |
 | Sarah Burdett - 1839 - 98 pages
...places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."— PSALM, Ixxiv. 20. " My soul is pained with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled." " Cry aloud thou that sittest in the dust ! Cry to the proud, the cruel, and unjust." — COWPER. "... | |
 | Voyages around the world - 1840 - 364 pages
...hoist the sail, and let the streamers float Upon the wanton breezes. * * + * * * * My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart j It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of... | |
 | Stephen Collins - Essays - 1842 - 318 pages
...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more! my ear is pained My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; It docs not feel foi man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is serer'd, as the flax That... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 206 pages
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong...which earth is filled ; There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood, is severed as the flax... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 200 pages
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong...which earth is filled ; There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood, is severed as the flax... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 288 pages
...thee ! ' We close this chapter in the affecting words of the great moral poet of England : ' My car is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which this earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart ; It does not feel for man.' COWPER.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pained, My soul is sick, with every day's report...which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax,... | |
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OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage... 
