 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 40 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealoift of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein , Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power ,1s felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. . CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...wav» 1 nat parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. ! 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lunes Receive our air, that moment they are free ,' , They touch our country, and their shackles'fall. 1 hat a noble, and bespeaks a nation proud' And ealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1826 - 794 pages
...extinction, to its utter extermination." The poet cxultingly exclaims — Slam's cannot breathe iu England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; 'Пил touch our country, and their shackles fall ; That's nolilr, and bespeaks a nation proud Aud... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 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. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - African Americans - 1914 - 344 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 - History - 1991 - 388 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 - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 318 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... | |
 | Emília Viotti da Costa - Guyana - 1994 - 406 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...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 circulate... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - History - 1995 - 298 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. 
