 | 1843 - 404 pages
...chains, The sole sad heritage her chitd obtains ! E'en this last wretehed boon their foes deny, To live together, or together die. By felon hands, by one...the fond links of feeling nature broke ! The fibres twisring round a parent's heart, Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. JAMES MONTGOMERY.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1843 - 1166 pages
...distant lands ! Transmitted miseries, and successive chains, The sole sad heritage her child obtains ! E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To weep together, or together die. By felon hands, bjr one relentless stroke, See the fond links of reeling Nature broke ! The fibres twisting round a... | |
 | Hannah More - 1844 - 578 pages
...distant lands ! Transmitted miseries, and successive chains, The sole sad heritage her child obtains ! E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To weep...Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. Hold ! murderer's, hold ! nor aggravate distress ; Respect tho passions you yourselves possess, Ev'n... | |
 | Hannah More - 1846 - 584 pages
...distant lands ! Transmitted miseries, and successive chains, The sole sad heritage her child obtains ! E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To weep together, or together die. By fcion hands, by one relentless stroke. See the fond links of feeling Nature broke ! The fibres twisting... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 414 pages
...distant lands ! Transmitted miseries, and successive chains, The sole sad heritage her child obtains ! E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To weep...Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. Hold, murderers, hold ! nor aggravate distress ; Respect the passions you yourselves possess ; E'en... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...blazing town: Sou the dirt* victim torn from social life, llio shrieking babe, the agonizing wife; By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the fond links* of feeling nature broke ! Tin: fibres twitting round a parent's heart Torn from their tfrosp, anil bleeding as they part."... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 348 pages
...The sole sad heritage her child obtains ! E'en' this iast wretched boon their foes deny, 4 To live together, or together die. By felon hands, by one...heart, Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they pars. JAMES MONTGOMERY. Lives there a reptile baser than a siave ? Loathsome as death, corrupted as... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...the blazing town: See the dire victim torn I'rom social life, The shrieking babe, the agonizing wife; By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the fond links of feeling nature bruke ! The fibres twisting round a parent's heart Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part."... | |
 | John James Geer - 1863 - 314 pages
...chains, The soul-sad heritage, her child obtains. E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To live together, or together die ! By felon hands, by one...heart, Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part !" This unfortunate man gave me instances of where he had seen his neighbors hung, some until not quite... | |
 | John James Geer - 1863 - 326 pages
...her child obtains. E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To live together, or together die I By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the...heart, Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part !" This unfortunate man gave me instances of where he had seen his neighbors hung, some until not quite... | |
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E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To weep together, or together die. By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the fond links of feeling Nature broke ! The fibres twisting round a parent's heart, Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as... 
