 Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart,...  Poems - Page 37by William Cowper - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Fiction - 1988 - 468 pages
...doing, if we cannot have amity we can have peace." CHAPTER XIV. LUKE SAWYER SPEAKS TO THE LEAGUE. Mv ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report...There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; It does not'feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...rumor of oppression and deceit, of successful or unsuccessful mobs might never reach me more." My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage perpetrated upon the Negroes by mob violence. I am not here, Mr. Speaker, asking any special legislation... | |
 | Mary Prince - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 162 pages
...three separate purchasers; and they were literally torn from each other. How just the remark of Cowper, 'There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart It does not feel for man!' " The following notices of cases between masters and slaves, are extracted from the Annual Lists of trials... | |
 | Marcus Wood - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 772 pages
...is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does...not feel for man. The natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax1 That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...is pain'd, My soul is sick, with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man; the nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax 10 That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds... | |
 | William Sanders Scarborough - History - 2006 - 557 pages
...from the sight and sound of it all, cry with Cowper:3 "O, for a lodge in some vast wilderness * * # My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and...the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire." With the hatred of the lower classes of society to face, with the indifference and prejudice of the... | |
 | Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray - History - 2006 - 470 pages
...my feelings correspond with it, how applicable now are the words of the immortal Cowper, — 'My ear is pained, / My soul is sick with every day's report...Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled.'" It was as if the poet had sympathized with her innermost feelings. Verses could comfort when inscribed... | |
 | Simon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 324 pages
...is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd (The Task, 2:4-10) For a poet who so insists on the solace and... | |
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