| 1801 - 452 oldal
...melancholy subject, does the book open, and thus the paragraph closes in his own peculiar style : — I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To carry...the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
| William Cowper - 1801 - 280 oldal
...not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I awake, 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 rather be myself the... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 oldal
...his head, to think himself a man i I would not have a slave 10 till my ground, To carry me, to f;ln me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's .30- -; THE TASK. BOOK. iIJust estimation prized... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 oldal
...love for me. THEI/WAtr,. • AGAINST SLAVERY. t I WOULD not have a slave to till my ground, To cany me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That pinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: <!ear as freedom is, . I had tkiich rather be myself the... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 oldal
...himself a man .' I would not have a ilavc to till my ground, To carry roc, to fai; me wl:iie I bleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - 598 oldal
...him as his lawful prcyv. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd, Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd. No: dear as freedom is,—and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price,— I had... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - 596 oldal
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys"; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd As As human Nature's broadest, foulest blot,— Chains...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd. No : dear as freedom is, — and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, —... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 oldal
...heart, Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Arid having human feelings, does not blush And hang his...sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth 'The sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. 3Vo : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's •. Just... | |
| Joshua Marsden - 1812 - 192 oldal
...rage a jhorter way To crowns of glory and immortal day. WEST-INDIA LOGIC, OR NEGROES HATE NO SOULS' I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...the wealth That sinews bought and sold have. ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 oldal
...blush And ha'ig his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To earry me,, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake,...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'dNo : dear as freedom is, and in ny heart's . SECTION III. The Rose. T wiT v.ad bee" Wash'd' latel-v... | |
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