 Which in a palace had grown cold, Had his free breathing been denied The range of the steep mountain's side ; But why delay the truth? — he died.  Lord Byron - Page 94by Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 pages
...mountain goat Was changed for water from the moat, Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moistened many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den ; But what were these to us or him ? These wasted not his heart or limb ; My brother's soul was of... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 366 pages
...water from the moat, Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moistened many a thousand years, '35 Since man first pent his fellow- men Like brutes within an iron den ; But what were these to us or him ? These wasted not his heart or limb ; My brother's soul was of... | |
 | Calvin Fairbank - Abolitionists - 1890 - 260 pages
...hard as ever slave performed, and torture as keen and continuous as was ever inflicted upon a prisoner "Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den," it becomes a martyrdom more heroic than his who falls at the cannon's mouth:" and, "He kept an account... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1890 - 480 pages
...from the moat, Our bread was such as captive's tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, 135 Smce man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den; But what were these to us or him? These wasted not his heart or limb ; My brother's soul was of that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 pages
...from the mountain goat Was changed for water from the moat, Our bread was such as captive's tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den ; But what were these to us or him ? These wasted not his heart or limb ; My brother's soul was of... | |
 | David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...the mountain go»t Was changed for water from the moat, Our bread was such as captive's tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron deu ; But what were these to us or him? These wasted not his heart or limb; My brother's soul was of... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - English literature - 1895 - 530 pages
...goat Was changed for water from the moat, Our bread was such as captive's tears 135 Have moistened many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den; But what were these to us or him ? These wasted not his heart or limb ; 140 My brother's soul was of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 pages
...the delight of man to exercise over man," an V. 134 ff.: Our bread was such as captive's tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den: ') Fiir beide Falle soil freilich nicht behauptet werden, dass der Dichter auf diese naheliegenden... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - United States - 1896 - 720 pages
...New prii York, were notorious at the time, and have long been famous in the annals of cruelty, — " Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den." A writer in the New London " Gazette " gave an account of their treatment, writing it down from the... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1897 - 110 pages
...water from the moat, Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, 136 Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den ; But what were these to us or him ? These wasted not his heart or limb ; My brother's soul was of... | |
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