 | William L. Andrews - 2006 - 328 pages
...alone that gives the flower of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." "Slaves cannot breathe in England; If their lungs...are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall."—Cowper. 55 When I reached Liverpool, I proceeded to Dr. Raffles, and handed my letters of... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 2006 - 368 pages
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 | William Cowper - 2006 - 448 pages
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 | Diane Robinson-Dunn - 2006 - 248 pages
...England stood. One quoted the oftrepeated lines Slaves cannot breathe in England: when their lungs reach our air, that moment they are free, they touch our country, and their shackles fall and stated that the poet, if still alive, would have to rewrite those treasured words as Her Majesty's... | |
 | Leone Levi - 2006 - 356 pages
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 | Hesperides - 2007 - 296 pages
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 | Stephen Tomkins - 2007 - 241 pages
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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. 
