 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's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate...  Poems - Page 47by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. Thatjs noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry...Britain's power Is felt> mankind may feel her mercy too. — COWPER. CHAPTKR IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The morning in summer. THE meek-ey'd morn appears',... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWFEK. N ,- CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. / Tht morning in aummejat 1. THE meek-ey'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry...vein Of all your empire: that where Britain's power la felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWPE* CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES, i SECTION I. The morning... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry...vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power It felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. — cow OWPER. CfiAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I.... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...country, and their shackles fall That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. YOUTH AND AGE.— Coleridge^ Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding like... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.—COWPER. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The Morning in Summer. 1. THE meek-ey'd morn... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud 40 And jealous of the 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. Cowper. 71. Irruption of Hyder AIL When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the 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 to. Cowper. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. Thp grave is not a place of rest, Where grief can never win a... | |
 | John Riland - 1828 - 326 pages
...ground of their common fellowship in sorrow :— Sure there is need of social intercourse, Betmolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations in a world that seems To toll the death-hell of its own decease.— Is it a time to wrangle, when the props Aftd pillars... | |
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