 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.  Poems - Страница 42по William Cowper - 1786Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 страници
...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, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 страници
...inflicted on a beast. WILLIAM COWPER 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 earned. No... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 страници
...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 earned. No... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 страници
...human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man f I would not have a slave nd I were neighbors, our conversations turned fre sleep, 3° And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - 1925 - 538 страници
...for the oppressed at last expresses itself in 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 That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - 1926 - 784 страници
...which the poet inveighed against so strongly in the wellknown lines: — ' 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.' The... | |
 | Dumas Malone - 1926 - 466 страници
...forwarded to parliament *2 Cf. the quotation from 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. "... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 страници
...human feelings, does not blush | And hang his head, to think himself a man?j I would not have a slave are they As would but serve pure bodies for allay sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - 490 страници
...Austen that were absorbing her contemporaries. She could quote Thomas Cowper's "I would not have a slave to till my ground/ To carry me, to fan me while I sleep," and "Fleecy locks and black complexion/ Cannot forfeit nature's claim;/ Skins may differ, but... | |
 | Moira Ferguson - 1993 - 194 страници
...Cowper's poem, The Task, which was popular with the contemporary reading public: 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. No:... | |
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