 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 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, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...bought and sold have ever carn'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 him. We have no slaves at home' — then why abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 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, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 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...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried over the wave, That... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's .30- -; THE TASK. BOOK. iIJust estimation prized above all price, I had much rather...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad? And they themselves once ferried over the wave, That... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...all the wealth That pinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: <!ear as freedom is, . I had tkiich rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. COWPER. THE The Labour of Idleness. — Day, a Pastoral. 89 THE LABOUR OF IDLENESS. THE wretch who... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 598 pages
...bought and sold have ever carn'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 him. We have no Slaves at home—then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 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, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home... .Then why abroad J And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 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, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 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, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. ...Then why aboad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That... | |
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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. 
