| Catherine Hall - History - 2002 - 584 pages
...sadly kneeling and others working in the background under the overseers' whip. Cowper was quoted below: I would not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. We have no slaves at home - why then abroad? This was followed by a poem in the voice of an... | |
| Marcus Wood - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 772 pages
...man 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 me, to fan me while I sleep. And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom... | |
| William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 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 me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear... | |
| Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...man 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...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. Cowper concludes, "We have no slaves at home.—Then why abroad?" a question which goes as unanswered... | |
| Thomas F. Bonnell - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 408 pages
...sinews bought and sold have ever earnM* No : dear as freedom )s, and in my hcarfs Just estimation prilM above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him* We have no Blavet at home — why then abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o*er the wavt That... | |
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