 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I awake, 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 rather be myself the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...And hang his head, to 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,...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 have no slaves at home.... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...himself a man > I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 3> And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews...Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, 35 And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 362 pages
...to fan me while I fleep, * And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Juft eftimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myfelf the flave, And wear the bonds,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...his head, to think himself a man i I would not have a slave 10 till my ground, To carry me, to f;ln me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's .30- -; THE TASK. BOOK. iIJust estimation prized... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...for me. THEI/WAtr,. • AGAINST SLAVERY. t I WOULD not have a slave to till my ground, To cany me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That pinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: <!ear as freedom is, . I had tkiich rather be myself the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...himself a man .' I would not have a ilavc to till my ground, To carry roc, to fai; me wl:iie I bleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 596 pages
...And hang his head to 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,...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd. No : dear as freedom is, — and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, —... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...to fan me while I sleep, * i'-l' ' And tremhle when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews hought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd ahove all price, I had much rather he myself the slave, And wear the honds, than fasten them on him.... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 598 pages
...wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'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, than fasten them on him. We have no Slaves at home—then... | |
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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 earn'd. 
