 | James Dyer Ball - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...Then what is man? And what 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 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...Then what is man? And what 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...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... | |
 | Emily Auerbach - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...Then what is man? And what 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...all the 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Bonnell - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 403
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think: himself a man ? t would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep. And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earnM* No... | |
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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. 
