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Ruth forgiue me, if I err'd, from humane hearts compassion

Archive 2006-03-01 Heo 2006

Ruth forgiue me, if I err'd, from humane hearts compassion

Friday Poetry Blogging: Thomas Campion Heo 2006

Tho we have many other crimes to answer for, that of cruelty to our Enemies is not chargable upon Americans, and I hope never will be -- if we have err'd it is upon the side of Mercy and have excercised so much lenity to our Enemies as to endanger our Friends -- but their Malice and wicked designs against us, has and will oblige every State to proceed against them with more Rigor.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 18 May 1777 1963

Aim'd at the helm, his lance err'd; but Geraint's,

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I had almost forgot to mention the Gravers Work, which is not without Faults, particularly he has err'd in the Posture of the Disciples at the last

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

And truth relate us, both [from] whence you err'd, 795

Eighth Book 1857

Nor err'd, but brass encountering brass, the point

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832

Dismiss'd, nor err'd; his bull-hide targe he struck

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832

This is not the vale of Clanarven: my son, we have err'd from the way,

Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters Joanna Baillie 1806

Baba thought she would faint, but there he err'd --

Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806