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" 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. "
Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland ... - Page 376
by Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829
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Poetry for Children: Consisting of Short Pieces to be Committed to Memory

1820 - 190 pages
...kiss of love for me ! THBI.WALL. AGAINST SLAVERY. I WOULD not have a slave to till my ground, To earry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake,...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized beyond all price ; I had much rather...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn 'il. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...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...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not h:ive a slave to till my ground,. To carry me, to fan me...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had much rather...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 36

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 80

British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...man, seeing this, And having 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...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather...
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The Percy anecdotes, by Sholto and Reuben Percy. (Eloquence).

Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...in the words of the poet, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." IMPROVISATORI. The gift of extemporaneous versifying seems confined to the south of Europe. It is indeed...
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Samboe; or the African boy, by the author of “Twilight hours improved.” [M ...

Richard SAMBLE, Mary Ann Hedge - 1823 - 206 pages
...follow him to the apartment of his lady, previously to her taking her morning airing. CHAPTER IX. " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." COWPEK. FROM the reciprocation of the heart's best affections, which had marked the short period of...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...seeing this, And paying human feelings, does not bltfsh", And hang his head, (o think himself a man ? 1 would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...seeing this, And having 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...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather...
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