 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...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, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 436 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 me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | 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 me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | 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 ? of I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No: dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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. 
