 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...seeing this, And paying human feelings, does not bltfsh", And hang his head, (o 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, bought and sold, have ever... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to 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, bought and sold, have ever... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 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.... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pages
...may a double portion of his spirit rest on us, and may his prayers be answered. Amen. LETTER XXVII. 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.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to 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 bought and sold have ever earn'd.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to ian me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush" And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, v And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to 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, bought and sold, have ever... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 512 pages
...sera rnbcns acccudil l1tmina Vcspcr." 186 CHAP. " I would not have a slave to till my around, YVT '_ To fan me when I sleep, and tremble when I wake, for all that human sinews, bought And sold, have ever earn'd." The National Convention having lately, in the... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...told, that he must give up all hope of abolishing slavery ? No : he would never give it up, but evclaim in the words of the poet, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when 1 sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever eam'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. 
