 | James Barr - Church and state - 1920 - 328 pages
...it as best they could, and win it for themselves by and by. In the words of William Cowper : — " No : dear as Freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation...myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them 01i him." But indeed, as we shall see, the Dissenting Churches are in no such unemancipated and fettered... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...seeing this, And huving human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, 1 had much rather be myself the slave. And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - France - 1925 - 538 pages
...spirit of world-wide love for the oppressed at last expresses itself in William Cowper's verse : « I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - China - 1926 - 784 pages
...domestics, to perform the duty which the poet inveighed against so strongly in the wellknown lines: — ' I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.' The smaller kind of the same shape, and of which such large quantities are exported to America —... | |
 | Dumas Malone - United States - 1926 - 466 pages
...petition which was forwarded to parliament *2 Cf. the quotation from Cowper on the title page : ' ' I would not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. " 88 The Quakers, Clarkson, Wesley, and others. «* One calculation is marred by an error which... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush | And hang his head, to think himself a man?j So drossy, so divisible are they As would but serve pure bodies for allay,1 320 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear... | |
 | Moira Ferguson - Education - 1993 - 194 pages
...passage from William Cowper's poem, The Task, which was popular with the contemporary reading public: I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...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... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 490 pages
...novels of Scott and Jane Austen that were absorbing her contemporaries. She could quote Thomas Cowper's "I would not have a slave to till my ground/ To carry me, to fan me while I sleep," and "Fleecy locks and black complexion/ Cannot forfeit nature's claim;/ Skins may differ, but affection/Dwells... | |
 | Maria J. Falco - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 250 pages
...poignant passage from William Cowper's poem, "The Task," popular with the contemporary reading public: I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 244 pages
...moral. Lucretia's favorite was William Cowper. When, with flashing eyes and ringing voice, she recited: "I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation,... | |
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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. 
