 | John James Geer - 1863 - 302 pages
...her child obtains. E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To live together, or together die 1 By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the fond links of feeling Nature broke I The fibres twisting round a parent's heart, Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part !" This... | |
 | 1830 - 632 pages
...from its agonizing mother, to part for ever ! " E'en this last wretched boon their foes deny, To live together, or together die ; By felon hands, by one...Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part." Though much has been said of late respecting the barbarity of flogging females, their tender forms... | |
 | Susan Kingsley Kent - 1999 - 380 pages
...She, wretch forlorn! is dragg'd by hostile hands, To distant tyrants sold, in distant lands! . . . By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the...Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. These were motifs that especially concerned women, as the gender ideology of the late eighteenth century... | |
 | Anne K. Mellor - 2000 - 192 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. (95-106) Insisting that the "affections" are the basis of a universal morality, "in every nature, every... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman - 2001 - 924 pages
...weep together, or together die. By felon hands, by one relentless stroke, See the fond vital links of Nature broke! The fibres twisting round a parent's...Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. Hold, murderers! hold! nor aggravate distress; Respect the passions you yourselves possess: Ev'n you,... | |
 | Anne Stott - 2003 - 432 pages
...indicnnent of the forcible separation of parents and children. By felon hands, by one relentless streike. See the fond links of feeling Nature broke! The fibres...Torn from their grasp. and bleeding as they part. llines tu7.tul The effectiveness of a passage like this deliends on the ahility of the white reader... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 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, by one relendess stroke, See the fond vital links of Nature broke! The fibres twisting round a parent's heart,... | |
 | Paul Keen - 2004 - 380 pages
...lands! Transmitted miseries, and successive chains, The sole sad heritage her child obtains! ios Ev'n this last wretched boon their foes deny, To weep together,...broke! The fibres twisting round a parent's heart, no Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. Hold, murderers, hold! nor aggravate distress;... | |
 | Hilary Beckles, Verene Shepherd - 2007 - 167 pages
...wretch forlorn! Is dragg'd by hostile hands, To distant tyrants sold, in distant lands!... By felons hands, by one relentless stroke, see the fond links...Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part. . . Even in the finest writings of female abolitionists Ferguson shows the racial arrogance and contempt... | |
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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... 
