 | George Croly - 1831 - 436 pages
...think himself a man 1 18* 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. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, And wear... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1832 - 674 pages
...head, to think himself a man ? 1 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. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me, while I sleep, 30 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, priz'd above all price, I would much rather... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 pages
...applied to another branch of the question in 1807:— " I would not have a slave to till ray ground, To fan me when I sleep, and tremble when I wake, for all that human sinews, bought And sold, have ever earn'd." The National Convention having lately, in the... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...in which he is retained. w 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. In the following passage the word Clodius has the rising circumflex to express irony," for Cicero does... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 420 pages
...to think himself a maa'1 25 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. No! dear as freedom is, and in my heart's 80 Just estimation prized above all price, I had... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1833 - 274 pages
...estimation priz'd above all price; 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'djtI had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, that fasten them on him. We have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1833 - 166 pages
...not have a slave to trll my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when Iv/ake, 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 priz'd above all price, I had much rather... | |
 | 1834 - 340 pages
...not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, And tremble when I awake, 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 priz'd above ail price, * had much rather... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...the libert the subject! " 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. 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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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." FREDERIC THE GREAT. Previous to the battle of Lutzen, in which eighty thousand Austrian» were defeated... 
