 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to titl my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...blush • And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my grounjl, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble,...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'dt IV « : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...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... | |
 | Caroline Herbert - 1817 - 236 pages
...failed giving him that epithet when they spoke of him. CHAP. V. " I would not have a slave to till the ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And...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... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 850 pages
...corresponding effects. 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,...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not hlush, 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 tremhle when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews hought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as... | |
 | 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 - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not hlush, \nd hang his head, to think himself a man ? ( would not have a slave to till my ground, 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...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... | |
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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. 
