 By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierced by wintry winds,...  The Humane Review - Page 421909Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread 335 Of misery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...cup Of Baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread . • / Of misery : sore pierc'd by wintry winds, ij How many shrink into the sordid hut . ~. :.... Of...poverty :-^-Thought fond man , ,. • Of these— The conscious heart of charity would warm, And her wide wish benevolence dilate ; . . ;i The social... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...distress ! How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish! Thought, fond man, Of these, and all the thousand...incessant struggle render life One scene of toil, of sutFring, and of fate, Vice in his high career would stand appall' d, And heedless rambling impulse... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse;... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse;... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse;... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds , How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind , Unbounded passion , madness, guilt, remorse... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...limbs — How many drink the cup Of.baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery— Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty — How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...limhs. How many drink the cup Of haleful grief, or eat the hitter hread Of misery.... ore pierc'd hy wint'ry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut, Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, 'Unhounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse;... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...distress ! how many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish ! Thought fond man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills That one incessant struggle render life, 350 One scene of toil, of suffering and of fate, Vice in his high career would stand appall'd, And... | |
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