 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 Poetical Works of Thomas Moore - Side 209af Thomas Moore - 1841Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 sider
...half wing'd thee o'er — Rebellion brav'd thee from the shore. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest...exhalations, when they burst From the warm earth, if chilFd at first, If check'd in soaring from the plain, Darken to fogs and sink again ; — But, if... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 418 sider
...half wing'd thee o'er — Rebellion brav'd thee from the shore. > Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest...but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fane ! As exhalations, when they burst » From the warm earth, if chill'd at first, If check'd in soaring... | |
 | 1817 - 728 sider
...apostrophe to Rebellion, with an appropriate simile, page 203. "Rebellion! foul dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest...ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit born to bless Has sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success, Had wafted to eternal fame!... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 sider
...half wing'd thee o'er— Rebellion brav'd thee from the shore. Rebellion! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest...lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Has sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame!... | |
 | 1817 - 548 sider
...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 - 1817 - 492 sider
...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... | |
 | 1817 - 710 sider
...SOS. " Rebellion ! foul dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest c.iu?e that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit born to bless Has sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success, Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 sider
...There is truth as well as eloquence in the follow^ ing apostrophe. Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so 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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 sider
...have deserved a nobler name than the odious one of Rebellion? " Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest...lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Has sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame... | |
 | 1822 - 858 sider
...spirits who have struggled for liberty — and failed — " Spirits born to bless, Now crush'd beneath a withering name, Whom but a day's — an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame !" It is intended to bring them to the scaffold by poisoning the public mind before their trial, by... | |
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