 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They...vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. YOUTH AND AGE.— Coleridge^ Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 páginas
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and lops'd. Slaves cannot breathe 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 pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 páginas
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. S 6. 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 ev ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | 1924 - 654 páginas
...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 - 1991 - 388 páginas
...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 - 1993 - 318 páginas
...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... | |
 | Bernardo M. Ferdman, Rose-Marie Weber, Arnulfo G. Ramirez - 1994 - 360 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Emília Viotti da Costa - 1994 - 406 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 520 páginas
...subject: — it might have occurred to him that — 'Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.' Of this, however, Mr. Fearon knows nothing — he found it not in the enlightened pages of the Examiner... | |
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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. 
