Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement on the Rights of Man: In Six Books, with Notes Explanatory and MiscellaneousS. Engles, 1805 - 358 Seiten |
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... wretched fellow creatures , without anticipating the anger of heaven , and the execration of my own conscience , procrastinate the work any longer , especially as its objects were , the vindication of injured innocence , not reputation ...
... wretched fellow creatures , without anticipating the anger of heaven , and the execration of my own conscience , procrastinate the work any longer , especially as its objects were , the vindication of injured innocence , not reputation ...
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... wretched owe , " Tis what our God requires .... our God revere , The poor and stranger are his constant care : To heav'n our cause and our revenge belongs , God wonders with us , and he feels our wrongs : Pity us while we lift our ...
... wretched owe , " Tis what our God requires .... our God revere , The poor and stranger are his constant care : To heav'n our cause and our revenge belongs , God wonders with us , and he feels our wrongs : Pity us while we lift our ...
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... wretched and forlorn , Wreck'd on this coast and shatter'd by the storm : If this be false may heav'n its veng'ance shed , And levell❜d thunder strike each guilty head . " This shows our friend by old experience taught , And learn'd in ...
... wretched and forlorn , Wreck'd on this coast and shatter'd by the storm : If this be false may heav'n its veng'ance shed , And levell❜d thunder strike each guilty head . " This shows our friend by old experience taught , And learn'd in ...
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... wretched grieve no more , To clothe the naked and your way to guide , And thus my little all with you divide : ' Tis ... wretch rebels ; For man is changeful as his bliss or woe , Too high when prosp❜rous , when distress'd too low ...
... wretched grieve no more , To clothe the naked and your way to guide , And thus my little all with you divide : ' Tis ... wretch rebels ; For man is changeful as his bliss or woe , Too high when prosp❜rous , when distress'd too low ...
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... wretched slaves beneath the decks were stowed , While to the shore the cruel ruffians row'd ; The poor unhappy infants left behind , To more than mortal miseries consign'd , - The ambush now approach the distant plain , All bent to ...
... wretched slaves beneath the decks were stowed , While to the shore the cruel ruffians row'd ; The poor unhappy infants left behind , To more than mortal miseries consign'd , - The ambush now approach the distant plain , All bent to ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
æther ANGOLA arms AVENIA beauteous behold blood brave breast breath bright Chaldea chief chieftains Christian tyrant Christians clouds coursers cries crown'd cruel dart dastard dear death deep despotism dreadful earth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fall fame fate father fear field fierce fight fix'd flames flew flies friends furious gen'rous glory gold golden gore grief groans hand HAWKINS head hear heart heav'n hero Jove LAMBERT LANGO LECLERC loud LOUVERTURE LOUVERTURE's majestic mighty woe MONDINGO mournful myrmidons native night o'er oppress'd pain panting pierc'd pity plain poison'd poor pow'r prey prince proud purple purple plain rage rise roar round ruffians rush'd sable train SAMBO ships shore sight sire skies slain slavery slaves sorrows soul spear spoke sweet Swift sword tears tempest thee thou thro thunder town trembling troops tyrants veng'ance warriors waves weeping wind wound wretched youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 234 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Seite 31 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
Seite iii - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 96 - But, when he speaks, what elocution flows! Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious accents fall, with easy art; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart! Wondering we hear, and fix'd in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our eyes.
Seite 145 - As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the...
Seite 140 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Seite 324 - Depart from me, ye cursed ; for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in ; naked, and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Seite 272 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Seite 190 - Yet on the verge of battle let us stay, And for a moment's space suspend the day; Let Heaven's high...
Seite 193 - White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears \— So pale the Greeks the eyes of Hector meet, The chief so thunders, and so shakes the fleet.