 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 330 pages
...man? I would not have a slave to till ray ground, To carry. me, to fan me while I sleep, And trunble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought...dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ;• N CHAP. IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 205 I had much rather be myself the slave,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...wealth f That sinews, bought and sold, have ever eain'ij. No: dear as freedom i,, and in my heart 8 Just estimation, prized above all price, I had much...rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fas.en them on him We have no slaves at home — then why abroad And they, themselves, once ferry do... | |
 | Caroline Herbert - 1817 - 236 pages
...him. CHAP. V. " I would not have a slave to till the 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" Ax length the long wished for happy day arrived. About four o'clock a postchaise and four stopped at... | |
 | 1822 - 850 pages
...FOREIGN SLAVB TRADE *. I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To curry 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. • 'TIS THE CAUSE OF МА1Г. There dwell the most forlorn of humankind, Immur'd, though unaccus'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...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 in my heart's Just estimation...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...would not have a slave to till my ground, ( To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, \ And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth ((That sinews bought and...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - 306 pages
...himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To ciirry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews...have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my hearth Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 424 pages
...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth The 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 myself the slave, And wear the bonds, thut... | |
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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. 
