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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... "
The Rise, Progress and Downfall of Aristocracy: Taken from Ancient and ... - Page 102
by William Mathers - 1831 - 200 pages
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles tall. That's noble, and betpeafe* a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'iy vein Of all your empire : that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too....
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1822 - 572 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." ' In Mr. Curran's defence of Hamilton Rowan, accused of the publication of a seditious libel, there...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; 16 182 THE AMERICAN [Lesso* They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. LESSON LXXVII. The Same Subject. — MONTGOMERY. THE broken heart, which kindness never heals, The...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1824 - 446 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...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations...
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The Englishman's library [ed. by E. H. L.].

Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...complete triumph in its native land. L. SLAVE TRADE. " Slavts cannot breathe In England ;~if their laagi Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They...vein Of all your empire, — that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too." COWPKR. THERE was a time when slavery was the common...
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The poems of William Cowper, with notes from his own correspondence

William Cowper - 1824 - 450 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...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Ot all your empire ; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too....
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...soul, His sacred genius thou. Dyer's Ruins of Rome. 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. Cowper's Task, b. 2. Liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from heav'n Fires all the...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...fall. That's noule ! and bespeaks a nation proud And je;uous of the blessing. Spread it then, Л nd let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire;...that, where "Britain's power Is felt, mankind may fed her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse. Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid,...
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True happiness found only in the Christian life: letters

Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 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. COWPEH. Edinburgh, 2ith July, 1323 SLAVERY, horrific name ! torn from kindred and country, forced by...
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Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through ..., Volume 1

Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 pages
...mistaken, Sir; we have no slaves in Great Britain. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. LAND. Aye, Aye I you mean, you have no negirs in England : We know all that, but we also know that...
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