 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 pages
...breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our count.-y, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev ry vein I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...wavfl That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : If 'their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - 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,... | |
 | Michel Fabre - 1991 - 388 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 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. That is noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 pages
...justifiable enterprise. "Spread [freedom] then," the poet writes, 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. (2.44-47) The new, British Empire, post-dating the slave trade, is to be defined by its power and its... | |
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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... 
