| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 sider
...scorn! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg' d with treacheries to the brim, With joys, that vanish while he sips, Like Dead-Sea fruits,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 414 sider
...glory's bed, He liv'd, and, in the face of morn, Laugh'd them and Faith and Heaven to scorn ! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 sider
...breathed itself out in too harsh an anathema against traitors, we can easily pardon his warmth. Oh fora tongue to curse the slave. Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 sider
...slave, VVhose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er tin- councils of the brave, And blasts thejn in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drujrg'd with treacheries to the brim, — With hopes, that but allure to 8y, With j jys, that vanish... | |
| Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 sider
...country, by whose agency the attempt was baffled, and the patriots betrayed to the gallows. " Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May life's unblessed cup for him Be... | |
| 1820 - 298 sider
...most heartfelt accordance of feeling with the poet in his exclamation of the following Hues* Oh ! for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, • . And blasts them in the hour of might : May life's unblessed cup for him... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 sider
...Glory's bed, He lived, and in the face of morn, Laugh'd them and Faith and Heaven to scorn ! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be... | |
| William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 sider
...host of the houseless, became the tenant of the gloomy dungeons of the criminal. CHAPTER II. " O for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May life's unblessed cup for him Be... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 326 sider
...glory's bed, He Hv'd, and, in the face of morn, Taugh'd them and Faith and Heaven to scorn ! Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of night ! May life's unhlessed cup for him Be... | |
| Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 sider
...continued to preserve throughout this undertaking a perfect uniformity of design. CHAPTER XX. " O for a tongue to curse the slave "Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might !" MOORE. ON the morning succeeding the... | |
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