Tragic Fragment
tragic fragment all devil as i am—a damned wretch, a hardened, stubborn, unrepenting villain, still my heart melts at human wretchedness; and with sincere but unavailing sighs i view the helpless children of distress: with tears indignant i behold the oppressor rejoicing in the honest man's destruction, whose unsubmitting heart was all his crime.— ev'n you, ye hapless crew! i pity you; ye, whom the seeming good think sin to pity; ye poor, despised, abandoned vagabonds, whom vice, as usual, has turn'd o'er to ruin. oh! but for friends and interposing heaven, i had been driven forth like you forlorn, the most detested, worthless wretch among you! o injured god! thy goodness has endow'd me with talents passing most of my compeers, which i in just proportion have abused— as far surpassing other common villains as thou in natural parts has given me more.