 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 pages
...bloodiest picture in the " Boole of Time," Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a gen'rous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy...woe ! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shatter'd spea Clos'd her bright eye, and curb'd her high career ; Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 312 pages
...Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shatter'd spear, Clos'd her bright eye, and curb'd her high career; Hope,...for a season, bade the world farewell : And Freedom shrieked — as Kosciusko fell ! The sun went down, nor ceas'd the carnage there, Tumultuous murder... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...4. In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew ; — Oh ! bloodiest picture in the " Book of Time," Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a gen'rous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe 1 Dropp'd from her nerveless... | |
 | 1846 - 730 pages
...stood a listless spectator, forgetful of once the fosterer and protector of her civilization ! " Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime I" It is common for the historians in the interest of kings, to ascribe the fall of Poland to the political... | |
 | G. B. Prunetti - 1846 - 782 pages
...between themselves the Polish territory, and enslaving or driving into exile the Polish people. " Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime !" We need not multiply examples under this head ; all history is filled with them. Let us to-morrow... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...BYRON: Giaour. Is't death to fall for Freedom's right ? He's dead alone who lacks her light ! CAMPBELL. Hope for a season bade the world Farewell, And Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell. CAMPBELL: Pleasures of Hope. Where honour or where conscience does not bind, No other tie shall shackle... | |
 | Scotch-Irish Society of America - 1897 - 480 pages
...them. The situation recalls the pathetic stanza of one of the earlier poets on a kindred subject: O bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe. The men who fled in 1763 returned almost to a man in 1766 and 1767, at the close of the Indian war... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 322 pages
...reason of the sympathetic allusion to the woes of Poland : " Ah, bloodiest picture in the book of time 1 Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not...pitying foe, Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 320 pages
...allusion to the woes of Poland : " Ah, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia fell, un wept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe 1 Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career,... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 pages
...conquerors. He saw his mother — Virginia — with bleeding breast, in her hour of agony — "Find not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe." I have said Mr. Hunter was a conservative. No man loved truth more, or was quicker to discern abstract... | |
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Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe... 
