 | Luke Herbert - 1824 - 394 pages
...the wheel to quiet them before her turn to be relieved came." " Portentous, unexampled, unexplained,! What man seeing this. And having human feelings, does not blush, And bang his head to think himself a man ?" It will be observed, that we have only noticed a few of the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 pages
...that. Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,...sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever earn'd. No — dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does...slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, v And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - 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...sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.' The smaller kind of the same shape, and of which such... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 25 S Then what is man ? And ut pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; 60 Or like man?j I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble... | |
 | 1898 - 798 pages
...that Mercy, with a bleeding heart., Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, lo think himself a man? LXVII Dissertation allemande. \. Lessing aïs Vorkàmpfer 3. Die rotnanlische... | |
 | Susan Koppelman - 1987 - 348 pages
...not love — while men can doom The fruit of love, to Slavery from the womb." — MONTGOMERY. "And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does...blush, And hang his head to think himself a man?" — COWPER. On the finely macadamized road which leads from La Prairie to Montreal, a number of low... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pages
...connection among ideas, it is instructive to see a poem entitled "On Slavery," by William Cowper ("And what man seeing this,/ And having human feelings, does not blush/ And hang his head, . . . .") followed by the same author's "The Bastile" ("The shame to manhood, and opprobrious more/... | |
 | Moira Ferguson - 1993 - 194 pages
...passage from William 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...sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - 490 pages
...novels of Scott and Jane 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 affection/Dwells... | |
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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. 
