 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...in the words of the poet, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." IMPROVISATORL The gift of extemporaneous versifying seems confined to the south of Europe. It is indeed... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev ry vein I had much rather be 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 • That parts us, are emancipate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himse.fa man? I would not have a slave to tiil my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for ai< the wealth That sinews bought and sivd have ever earn'd. 5. No : dear as freedom is, and in my... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 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... | |
 | James Barr - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...— " No : dear as Freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be 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... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...spirit of world-wide love for the oppressed at last expresses itself in William Cowper's verse : « I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...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 rather be... | |
 | Dumas Malone - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 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 - 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... | |
 | Moira Ferguson - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 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...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... | |
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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. 
