 They were days when the gallows stood black in the way The larger the town, the more plentiful they ; When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to kill than prevent ; When Justice herself, taking Law for her guide, Was never...  Voices from the Mountains and from the Crowd - Страница 213написао/ла Charles Mackay - 1853 - 373 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 страница
...his dungeon and racks for the poor, And a gibbet to hang a refractory boor ? When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...again. They were days when the Crowd had no freedom of speeeh, And reading and writing were out of its reach ; When Ignorance, stolid and dease, was its doom,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 страница
...his dungeon and racks for the poor, And a gibbet to hang a refractory boor ? When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...prevent ; When Justice herself, taking Law for her guiae, Was never appeased till a victim had died ; And the stealer of sheep and the slayer of men Were... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 страница
...vilest of crime, And martyrs 7 were burn'd half a score at a time. 5. They were days when the gallows 3 stood black in the way, The larger the town, the more...herself, taking Law for her guide, Was never appeased 9 till a victim had died; And the stealer of sheep, and the slayer of men, Were strung up together—again... | |
 | 1860 - 544 страница
...gallows stood black in the way. The larger the town the more plentiful they ; When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...kill than prevent; When Justice herself, taking Law fop her guide, . Was never appeased till a victim had died ; And the stealer of sheep, and the slayer... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 страница
...vilest of crime, And martyrs7 were burn'd half a score at a time. 5. They were days when the gallows8 stood black in the way, The larger the town, the more...Justice herself, taking Law for her guide, Was never appeased9 till a victim had died ; And the stealer of sheep, and the slayer of men, Were strung up... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 страница
...sword settled questions of right And Falsehood was first to monopolize might { When Law iiever dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...prevent ; When Justice herself, taking Law for her guiae, Was never appeased till a victim had died ; And the stealer of sheep and the slayer of men Were... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 страница
...gallows stood black in the way The larger the town, the more plentiful they; When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...stealer of sheep, and the slayer of men, Were strung up together—again and again. VI. They were days, when the crowd had no freedom of speech, And reading... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 страница
...gallows B stood black in the way, The larger the town, the more plentiful they ; When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...men, Were strung up together — again and again. 6. They were days when the crowd had no freedom of speech, And reading and writing were out of its... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 страница
...gallows stood black in the way The larger the town, the more plentiful they ; When Law never dreamed it was good to relent, Or thought it less wisdom to...men, Were strung up together — again and again. VI. They were days, when the crowd had no freedom of speech, And reading and writing were out of its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 318 страница
...great penalty. At this time over one hundred and fifty offences were punishable in England by death. "The stealer of sheep and the slayer of men Were strung up together again and again." CHARLES MACKAY'S poem, The Days That are Gone. P. 225, 1. 3. stuck up for long torture. " As if impaled."... | |
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