...Dooms and devote* him as his lawful prey :•" Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat "jWith stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, " Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast." COWPER. But what can we do, it may be said, in a case of misery so distant and so hopeless ? What is...

...him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred...and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...

...Mountains interposed Mak« enemies of nations, who had else lake kindred drops been mingled into one. 7. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And,...broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and extracts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on...

...one. ' ' Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart \Veeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? and what man seeing this, And having...

...exulting in the widow's wail, The virgin's shriek, and infant's trembling cry. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed,...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Cowper's Task, b. 2. In every heart Are sown the sparks that kindle fiery war, Occasion needs but fan...

...enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed...enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops bten mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to...

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...sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. 2. He finds "his fellow guilty of a skin ' Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. Not colour'd like^ his own ; and having pow'r T" enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and...

...Mountains interpos'd, Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 3. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys * And worse...blot, , Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his swe * VVith stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 4....