 | Daniel Ritchie - Convicts - 1854 - 298 pages
...correct thinking man. Nobly has the poet painted the sorrowful event in these magnificent lines : — " Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ; Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell." We consider... | |
 | Elliot H. Goodwin - History - 1965 - 776 pages
...defenceless population slaughtered, Warsaw surrendered. Thomas Campbell bewept the failure of the insurgents: Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! The reactions of Catherine in St Petersburg and Igelstrom, her plenipotentiary in the Polish capital,... | |
 | History - 1968 - 1050 pages
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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 ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear— Closed her... 
