 | 1819 - 576 pagine
...ground, — — • — — — for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd ; I would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on htm." Cawper. IN perusing a recent volume of Travels in North America, I was tiiucli gratified to learn,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pagine
...earn'd. No : 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, thut fasten them on him. \Ve have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once... | |
 | 1820 - 190 pagine
...have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized beyond all price ; I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. COWPBK. The Labour qf Idleness. — Day; a Pastoral. 89 THE LABOUR OF IDLENESS. THE wretch who digs... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagine
...ever earn'd. 5. No : 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...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves connot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment thfy are free ; They... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pagine
...have ever earned. 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...ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagine
...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 myself the slave, And wear the...ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and l<> is'd. Slaves cannot Ijreathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pagine
...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 myself the slave, And wear the...ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pagine
...freedom is, and in rr.y heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price; 1 had much rather be myself <ne slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him....the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. , 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pagine
...have ever earii'd. No: 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 on htm. We have no slaves at home—then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o-er the wave That... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pagine
...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 and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free;... | |
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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. 
