 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...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, thpn fasten fhem on him. We hare no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...brought and sold 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... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...words of the poet, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." IMPROVISATORI. The gift of extemporaneous versifying seems confined to the south of Europe. It is indeed... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...think himself a man ? 1 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,...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... | |
 | Richard SAMBLE, Mary Ann Hedge - 1823 - 206 pages
...airing. CHAPTER IX. " 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." COWPEK. FROM the reciprocation of the heart's best affections, which had marked the short period of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 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...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad t And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To earry me, to fen me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews...much rather be myself, the slave, And wear the bonds, tlum fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home— then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 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,...my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, 1 had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. QUESTIONS. 1. Did... | |
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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. 
