 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, and Other Poems - Page 30by William Cowper - 1831 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews hought and sold have erer earned. No: dear... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...inflicted on a beast ! Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...Tanning him, and keeping off the flies. The picture forcibly brought to my mind a passage in Cowper: " 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 hare eveream'd." But when one... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...inflicted on a beast. ® Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does urse, which, by greatest good fortune, he and the like of And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No: dear... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man f ear that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, our conversations turned frequently 3° And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No: dear... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1854 - 580 pages
...inflicted on a beast Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head to think himself a man...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 : dear... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - France - 1925 - 538 pages
...spirit of world-wide love 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 : dear... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush | And hang his head, to think himself a man?j So drossy, so divisible are they As would but serve...beetle things As only buzz to heaven with evening earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Dumas Malone - United States - 1926 - 466 pages
...petition which was 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. " 88 The... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - China - 1926 - 784 pages
...domestics, to perform the duty 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 smaller... | |
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