 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...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,...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. 30 35 40 45 Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin Mary II want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from heaven as some... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs 40 Receive our air, that moment they are fr.ee ; They touch our country,...Spread it then And let it circulate through every vein 45 Of all your empire; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. The Lot... | |
 | Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence,...and mutual aid, Between the nations, in a world that seems To toll the death-bell of its own decease. Great princes have great playthings. Some have played... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 580 pages
...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,...every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's powei Is felt mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence,... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1288 pages
...been its meed. CHAPTER XX THE SLAVE TRADE Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country,...And let it circulate through every vein Of all your Empire—that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWPER. REAT movements... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1282 pages
...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...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWPER. REAT movements are too often connected with the names V_T of one or two prominent men, to the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That 'a noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. WILLIAM COWPER. BATTLE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC. MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; 1 if their lungs 40 Receive our 47 FROM BOOK V 'Tis morning ; and the sun with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon : while the clouds... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 pages
...she sees inflicted on a beast. . . . Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country,...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.2 Cowper's poems, in fact, illustrate the attitude of the ordinary thoughtful man of leisure towards... | |
 | 1876 - 494 pages
...liuellau prydferth y bardd Seisonig : — "Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country,...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing." Ac felly y mae ymhob gwlad uwchben pa un y mae baner Brydaiu yn chwyfio. Felly pirhaed. Gyda'r bardd... | |
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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. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... 
