 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...I sleep, And tremble when I wake, 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...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 parts... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 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...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wca.t" That sinews bought and sold have e irer earn 1 5. No: dear as freedom is, and in rr.y heart's... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...brought and sold have ever earii'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 htm. We have no slaves at home—then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o-er the wave That... | |
 | Richard SAMBLE, Mary Ann Hedge - 1823 - 206 pages
...follow him to the apartment of his lady, previously to her taking her morning airing. CHAPTER IX. " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." COWPEK. FROM the reciprocation of the heart's best affections, which had marked the short... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...seeing this, And paying human feelings, does not bltfsh", And hang his head, (o think himself a man ? 1 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 prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 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 prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. Cowper's Task, b. 2. . • I could endure Chains nowhere patiently ; and chains at home, Where... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 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 prized above all price, 1 had... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pages
...may a double portion of his spirit rest on us, and may his prayers be answered. Amen. LETTER XXVII. 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, I would rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to ian me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, 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... | |
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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. 
