 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...wealth f That sinews, bought and sold, have ever eain'ij. No: dear as freedom i,, and in my heart 8 Just estimation, prized above all price, I had much...rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fas.en them on him We have no slaves at home — then why abroad And they, themselves, once ferry do... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremhle when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews hought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized ahove all price, I had much rather he myself the slave, And wear the honds, than fasten them on him.... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 850 pages
...FOREIGN SLAVB TRADE *. I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To curry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever carn'd. • 'TIS THE CAUSE OF МА1Г. There dwell the most forlorn of humankind, Immur'd, though unaccus'd,... | |
 | Caroline Herbert - 1817 - 236 pages
...him. CHAP. V. " I would not have a slave to till the ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd" Ax length the long wished for happy day arrived. About four o'clock a postchaise and four stopped... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had much... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...To carry me, to fan me while I sleep. And tremhle when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews honght and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's .'list estimation prized ahove all price, I had much rather he myself the slave, \nd wear the honds,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...to.f ui me while I efre p, Ai:d treublr when 1 wpke, for aï! .the wealth Th;?.t sinews bought and soM have ever earned. . No.; dear as. freedom is, and in. my heart's Just cétimation, priz'rt ahovi all price; I had much rather be m} self the slave, And wear the honds, then... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my hearth Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We huve no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once feriied o'er the wave That parts... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom, is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; -,..-.- .— I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, thut fasten them on him. \Ve have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once... | |
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I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. 
