 | Gustave Rudler - France - 1925 - 538 pages
...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 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. No : dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - China - 1926 - 784 pages
...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 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 smaller kind of the same... | |
 | Dumas Malone - United States - 1926 - 466 pages
...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 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. " 88 The Quakers, Clarkson,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...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... | |
 | Dumas Malone - United States - 1926 - 466 pages
...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." "The Quakers, Clarkson, Wesley, and others. •« One calculation is marred by an error which should... | |
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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. 
