 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...  Poems - Сторінка 27автори: William Cowper - 1817Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1288 стор.
...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 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 стор.
...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 through every...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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 стор.
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. adows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth,...mysteriously over my soul. Sweeter than Dayspring to the 47 FROM BOOK V 'Tis morning ; and the sun with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon : while the clouds... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 стор.
...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 through every...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... | |
 | 1885 - 586 стор.
...the coast of Norway." And Cowper in the " Task " describes the same appearances (Task, Book ii.). " Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence,...Between the nations in a world, that seems To toll the death-bell of its own decease, And by the voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral doom. When... | |
 | Emília Viotti da Costa - 1994 - 406 стор.
...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 through every...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cushoo could not but enrage the colonists. Not surprisingly, Davies was accused of distributing to... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 стор.
...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... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 стор.
...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 through every...Between the nations, in a world that seems To toll the death-bell of its own decease, And by the voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral doom.2 When... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 стор.
...Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire; that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there...mutual aid, Between the nations, in a world that seems 50 To toll the death-bell of its own decease, And by the voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral... | |
 | William L. Andrews, David Alexander Davis - 2003 - 306 стор.
...book 2 ("The Timepiece"), lines 40-45. The sentence of lines 44-45 actually continues in lines 46-47: "Of all your empire; that where Britain's power /Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too." 1. John Morison, DD (1791-1859), a Congregationalist minister in Chelsea, educated at the University... | |
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