 | John Jackson (of Hull.) - China - 1829 - 52 pages
...slave, And wear the bonds that fasten them on him. Slaves cannot breath in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They...ev'ry vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy. too." 22 there, and take the oversight of an indigo manufactory... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They...shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud CHAPTER JV. SECTION 1. ; The. morning in summer. 1. THE meekey'd morn appears, mother of dews, At first... | |
 | 1876 - 494 pages
...feddwl am liuellau prydferth y bardd Seisonig : — "Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing." Ac felly y mae ymhob gwlad uwchben pa un y mae baner Brydaiu yn chwyfio. Felly pirhaed. Gyda'r bardd... | |
 | Crime - 1924 - 654 pages
...1783-1785 imitated this in his wellknown lines : "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free. They touch our country and their shackles fall." 250 conclusively established that there was not a real difference in status between the so-called villein... | |
 | Michel Fabre - History - 1991 - 388 pages
...cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper's lines epitomized England's aspiration to be the champion of abolitionism. In quoting them... | |
 | Suzanne Miale Miller, Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 318 pages
...hypocrisy. "Slaves cannot breathe in England," William Cowper had rejoiced in 1785, "if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free! / They touch our country, and their shackles fall" (Task, 1836-1837, Book II, line 40). By act of Parliament and official decree, England had emancipated... | |
 | Emília Viotti da Costa - Guyana - 1994 - 406 pages
...the wave, That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England. If their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That is noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it... | |
 | Bernardo M. Ferdman, Rose-Marie Weber, Arnulfo G. Ramirez - Education - 1994 - 360 pages
...Cowper's "Time-Piece," the second book of his Task: Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. (Lines 40-43) I have read these same lines in The Liberator, the point guard of the abolitionist press,... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - History - 1995 - 298 pages
...bones." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.2.81-82. 5. "Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free; / They touch our country, and their shackles fall." William Cowper, The Task 2.40-42. 6. "The fair humanities of old religion." Samuel Taylor Coleridge,... | |
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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. 
