 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 264 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827
...wave , ' That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lung! Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 252 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Thatjs noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...abroad ? And they^hemselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. S 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...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... | |
 | Prince Hoare - 1828 - 404 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...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... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - 1914 - 284 pages
...no such law. This decision inspired Cowper's lines: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunga Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "The Story of the Slave," see, also, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," William Goodell, for an elaborate... | |
 | Michel Fabre - 1993 - 358 pages
...represents an early, important, and for a time the only, cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...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 - 1993 - 300 pages
...Americans' own hypocrisy. "Slaves cannot breathe in England," William Cowper had rejoiced in 1785, "if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they.../ 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... | |
 | 1997 - 378 pages
...why abroad? And they themselves once ferried over the wave, That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England. If their lungs Receive...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... | |
 | Alexander Crummell, Southern Texts Society - 1995 - 265 pages
...after them. / The good is oft interred with their 1 o bones." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.2.81-82. 5. "Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs...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. 
