 | Lindley Murray - Readers and speakers - 1828 - 256 pages
...themseives once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breaihe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that...ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.— COWPBB. CHAPTER IVi DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I.... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy to.... | |
 | Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1828 - 456 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...blessing. — Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too!'1... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
...abroad ? And they^hemselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. S 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | John Holland Rose - Europe - 1923 - 1288 pages
...1791, it seems to deserve higher praise than has generally been its meed. CHAPTER XX THE SLAVE TRADE Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your Empire—that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | John Holland Rose - Europe - 1923 - 1282 pages
...1791, it seems to deserve higher praise than has generally been its meed. CHAPTER XX THE SLAVE TRADE Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall ; That !s noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That 'a noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; 1 if their lungs 40 every vein Of all your empire; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...less durable even than he. The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1785 355 Slaves cannot breathe in England SLAVES cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That 's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - English poetry - 1914 - 82 pages
...sweat With stripes that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. . . . Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...blessing. Spread it, then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.2... | |
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Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. 
