 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 590 pages
...Wellington or Bonaparte astride upon a centaur. The poet of the Pleasures of Hope tells us indeed, to learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes. But this passage only shows how easily a youthful mind lends itself to any fiction that appears in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 404 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes ! How poor Amelia kissed, with many a tear, His hand, blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! fi Hung... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence ! he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes ! How poor Amelia kissed, with many- a tear, His hand, blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes ! How poor Amelia kissed, with many a tear, His hand, blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1858 - 156 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes ! How poor Amelia kissed, with many a tear, His hand, blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1864 - 154 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes ! How poor Amelia kissed, with many a tear, His hand, blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on... | |
 | 1866 - 524 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor, and pleads for all his crimes I How poor Amelia kiss'd, with many a tear, His hand, blood-stain'd, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...' Or will they learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor,18 and pleads for all his crimes ! How poor Amelia kissed, with many a tear, His hand blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on the tortured bosom of her lord, And wept, and prayed perdition from his sword ! Nor sought... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...prayer his bursting heart, and died ' Or will they learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor,18 and pleads for all his crimes 1 How poor Amelia kissed,...tear, His hand blood-stained, but ever, ever dear ! Hung on the tortured bosom of her lord, And wept, and prayed perdition from his sword ! Nor sought... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Speut on the prayer his bursting heart, and died! Or they will land's lord. This ring the grateful monarch gave, And bade, when I had hia crimes ! How poor Amelia kiss'd, with many a tear, His hand, blood-stain'd, but ever, ever dear... | |
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The seaman's cry was heard along the deep; There on his funeral waters, dark and wild, The dying father blest his darling child! 
