 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.  The Task: In Six Books - Page 36by William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles John Smith - 1916 - 794 pages
...fortunate thnn others who have it not. The value we set upon that which wt ptixe may be more than iust. " No, dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price ; 1 had mnch rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds than fasten them on him." CoWPBR. VALUE,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 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 prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...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 earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...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 earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I ons of the Universe, and gauged everything there? Did the Maker take them into His couns earned. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all prize, I had much... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...himself a man f I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 3° he two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reade earned. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all prize, I had much... | |
 | James Barr - 1920 - 328 pages
...it as best they could, and win it for themselves by and by. In the words of William Cowper : — " No : dear as Freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them 01i him." But indeed, as we shall see, the... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - 1925 - 538 pages
...William Cowper's verse : « 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...estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him ». And with these indignant lines... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 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 prized above all price, 1 had much rather be myself the slave. And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves... | |
 | Dumas Malone - 1926 - 466 pages
...Cowper on the title page : "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." "The Quakers, Clarkson, Wesley, and others. •« One calculation is marred by an error which should... | |
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