Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success... The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5351817Full view - About this book
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 414 pages
...have thrown ; Here — ere the winds half wing*d thee o'er — Rebellion brav'd thee from the shore. . Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful...lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
| 1817 - 548 pages
...and religion. Rebellion ! foul dishonouring word Whose wrongful blight во oft has stained 'I'll.'; holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal, ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit born to bless, Нот eunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's an hoar's success, Had wafted to eternal... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...is truth as well as eloquence in the following apostrophe. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whow wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gainM. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hat sunk beneath tbut withi'img name, Whom but a day's, an... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...derotion to liberty and patriotism. There is truth as well as eloquence in the follow^ ing apostrophe. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful...oft has stain'd The holiest cause- that tongue or sivord Of mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Has sunk beneath that withering... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...word Whose wrongful blight во oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal, n IT lost or gain'd. How many a spirit born to bless, Has sunk beneath (hat withering паше, Whom but a day's an hour's success, Had wafled to eternal fame ! At exhalations,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...have thrown ; Here — ere the winds half wing'd thee o'er — Rebellion braved thee from the shore. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful...lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
| 1842 - 982 pages
...Second, and driving him from his throne, effected not a " grand rebellion," but a " glorious reyolution." Rebellion ' foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful...lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success, Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...have thrown ; Here — ere the winds half wing'd thee o'er — Rebellion brav'd thee from the shore. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful...has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword ( If mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, horn to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering... | |
| Charles Hamilton Teeling - Ireland - 1828 - 312 pages
...CHARLES HAMILTON TEELING. " REBELLION ! foul dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained — How many a spirit born to bless, Has sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's—... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...thee from the shore. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stuin'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gain'd — How many a spirit, Ixtrn to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted... | |
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