| Maria J. Falco - 2010 - 250 sider
...would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold...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... | |
| Dorothy Sterling - 1999 - 244 sider
...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold 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 would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him." even Susan Marriott... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2001 - 306 sider
...that he found appalling. Cowper's first criticism of slavery is found in a poem he published in 1784: 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?107 Cowper assisted in establishing a true understanding of black people by composing... | |
| Catherine Hall - 2002 - 584 sider
...was quoted below: 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. We have no slaves at home - why then abroad? This was followed by a poem in the voice of an enslaved... | |
| Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 sider
...reserved that I would not have a slave to till my ground... To cany 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 on... | |
| William Cowper - 2003 - 124 sider
...would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold...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... | |
| Emily Auerbach - 2004 - 364 sider
...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 earned. Cowper concludes, "We have no slaves at home.—Then why abroad?" a question which goes as... | |
| Thomas F. Bonnell - 2008 - 408 sider
...think: himself a man ? t would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep. And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earnM* No : dear as freedom )s, and in my hcarfs Just estimation prilM above all price, I had much... | |
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