 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.  The Poetical Melange - Page 851828Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 532 pages
...fanning him, and keeping off the flies. The picture forcibly brought to my mind a passage in Cowper : " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such an ignoble... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...Tanning him, and keeping off the flies. The picture forcibly brought to my mind a passage in Cowper: " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold hare eveream'd." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 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...tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews hought and sold have erer earned. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...your courtesy. U Me, only me, the hand of fortune bore, Unblessed to tread an interdicted shore. P& I would not have a slave to till my ground . To carry...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. MEACO, a city of Niphon, in Japan, fcrmerly the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. WILLIAM COWPER And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...myself the 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... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 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...myself the 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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I ntific prize, I had much rather be myself the slave, K And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man f I r that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, our conversations turned frequently 3° And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No: dear... | |
 | James Barr - Church and state - 1920 - 328 pages
...it as best they could, and win it for themselves by and by. In the words of William Cowper : — " No : dear as Freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation...myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them 01i him." But indeed, as we shall see, the Dissenting Churches are in no such unemancipated and fettered... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...seeing this, And huving 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...my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, 1 had much rather be myself the slave. And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves... | |
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