 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - Počet stránok 714
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man f ear 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... | |
 | Dumas Malone - 1926 - Počet stránok 466
...petition which was forwarded to parliament *2 Cf. the quotation from Cowper on the title page : ' ' I would not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. " 88 The Quakers, Clarkson, Wesley, and others. «* One calculation is marred by an error which should... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - 1926 - Počet stránok 784
...domestics, to perform the duty which the poet inveighed against so strongly in the wellknown lines: — ' I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.' The smaller kind of the same shape, and of which such large quantities are exported to America... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - Počet stránok 928
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush | And hang his head, to think himself a man?j So drossy, so divisible are they As would but serve pure bodies for allay,1 320 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear... | |
 | Moira Ferguson - 1993 - Počet stránok 194
...passage from William Cowper's poem, The Task, which was popular with the contemporary reading public: I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...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... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - Počet stránok 490
...novels of Scott and Jane Austen that were absorbing her contemporaries. She could quote Thomas Cowper's "I would not have a slave to till my ground/ To carry me, to fan me while I sleep," and "Fleecy locks and black complexion/ Cannot forfeit nature's claim;/ Skins may differ, but affection/Dwells... | |
 | Maria J. Falco - 2010 - Počet stránok 250
...poignant passage from William Cowper's poem, "The Task," popular with the contemporary reading public: I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1999 - Počet stránok 244
...moral. Lucretia's favorite was William Cowper. When, with flashing eyes and ringing voice, she recited: "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. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation,... | |
 | Catherine Hall - 2002 - Počet stránok 584
...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...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 enslaved... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - Počet stránok 772
...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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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 earn'd. 
