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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. "
A cyclopędia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams - Page 581
by Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 pages
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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867

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...
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The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865

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...
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William Cowper: Selected Poems

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...
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Searching for Jane Austen

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...
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The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810

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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