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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 earned. "
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ... - Page 137
by Great Britain. Parliament - 1812
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse

American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...hand; There mall we view the billows raging ftrife, Aid the kind breaft, and waft Ms boat to land." I WOULD not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while i fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd....
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...feeing this, And having human feelings, does not blulh And hang his head, to think himfelf a MAN ? I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To carry me", to fan me while I fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd....
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 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 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....
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 12

1801 - 452 pages
...melancholy subject, does the book open, and thus the paragraph closes in his own peculiar style : — 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 carn'd....
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Poems of Established Reputation: To Wit: 1st. The Art of Preserving Health

Health - 1802 - 302 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 me, to fan me while I sleep, 3> And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 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 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....
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The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates ..., Volume 2

Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 760 pages
...give it up. He would exclaim with the I'oct, in the words of the mott » of the pamphlet i^hich hch:id mentioned, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, " To fan me when I sleep, and tremble when " I wake, lor all that human smews bought " And sold, have ever...
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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 596 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 me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd....
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The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...man, seeing this, And having human feeling, 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 earn'd.....
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...seeing th^s, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man J 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....
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