 | Frederick Freeman - 1836 - 380 pages
...and this only, that the poet was enabled to say, " Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their schackles fall." The fact is, the respiration could go on well enough in those parts of her dominions... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 pages
...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 touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and hespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it, then,... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1836 - 814 pages
...beautiful lines of Cowper, iu the '['ask. " Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Imbibe our air, that moment they are free. They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation prond And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | 1920 - 1348 pages
...has expressed in lines dear to every English heart: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. In favor of his sincerity is the choice he has made of a national virtue — fair play... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1288 pages
...generally 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 their shackles fall; That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; 1 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,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...January 1785 355 Slaves cannot breathe in England 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,... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 pages
...heart Weeps when 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, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it, then,... | |
 | A. C. E. Vechtman-Veth - 1928 - 352 pages
...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. (COWPER, Th« Task.) Ik zou veel liever zelf de slaaf En de ketenen dragen, dan ze [hem... | |
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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. 
