 | 1787 - 430 pages
...hand; There mall we view the billows raging ftrife, Aid the kind breaft, and waft Ms boat to land." I WOULD not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while i fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...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.... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...what MAN feeing this, And having human feelings, does not blulh And hang his head, to think himfelf a MAN ? I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To carry me", to fan me while I fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd.... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...melancholy subject, does the book open, and thus the paragraph closes in his own peculiar style : — 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 carn'd.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...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.... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pages
.... . With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps, when she sees inflifted on a beast. 25 Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And...slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 3> And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...himself a man .' I would not have a ilavc to till my ground, To carry roc, to fai; me wl:iie I bleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - 596 pages
...one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys"; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd As As human Nature's broadest, foulest blot,— Chains him,...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 carn'd.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feeling, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself...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..... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...seeing th^s, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man J 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.... | |
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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 earned. 
